Quotes About Artistry

If you cannot think of anything to say that is useful or enlightening about your images, then don't say anything. There are plenty of other people who would love to put words in your mouth.

I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

I've never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I'm a huge fan!

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.

Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.

I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.