Quotes About Artistry

The truth is that I didn't start out making commercial movies. My films were not film festival movies with the possible exception slightly of 'Super,' but I was able to nurture my gifts through the works of artists making lower budget films that needed a place and an outlet.

I walk away from jobs generally feeling good about it and that I've done a good job. And it's always slightly deflating when I see the film thing because it's still me up there.

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.

I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

I like to sing R&B slow jams. It's always been my thing.

I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over it.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

My music wasn't accessible. I used to make music that was slow.

We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

I write very slowly.

I write slowly.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.

I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get them to be where I won't be embarrassed to sing them, and then feel like they're great.

Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.