Quotes About Artistry

If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours,

GAHAN: 'I don't think I should say "Hello, Pasadena", I think I should say, "Hello, the Rose Bowl" ... I don't know.' FRANKS: 'Why don't you say "Good Evening, Welcome To The Concert For The Masses"?' GAHAN: 'I'm not fucking Wordsworth, you know.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I wrote a thousand songs a day.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

American Recordings was not only a testament

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.

A lot of people make records where there are a couple songs worth listening to and you skip through the rest, and I don't want to do that because those records bore me pretty bad.

When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style.

I record all night and sleep all day.

I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

I would be more at peace if I could just record music and slide it under the door.

It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.

'The One and Only'? Down the years I've had a slight love/hate relationship with it, but I can't not love playing it.

When I dance, people are watching for a slight mistake. I don't want them to see any.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.