Quotes About Artistry

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

I make sure the best of what I do each year is the only material that gets on my albums; I don't want people to think I put out junk.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

We've gone through just as much stuff as any band. We just don't choose to sing about it. Well, maybe we do choose to sing about it.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

I can't imagine doing a DJ set and playing all my own stuff; it'd just be awkward.

Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!

One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.

I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music.

I would very much like to direct, star, perform, and just be a general auteur.

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

I never want to cut music ever again that I'm just kind of into, because we definitely didn't do that in the beginning.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.