Quotes About Artistry

Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.

Drake and Kanye make me want to get better.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

I like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

Kate Bush is a huge inspiration for me.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I was a big fan of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you love hip-hop music, go to a hip-hop class. If you love salsa, take a salsa class. It will become infectious and you'll keep going back.

I love being in the band and I love being the fourth member of 5SOS, but someone I've seen do something separate well is Brandon Flowers from The Killers. I love that he has a place where he can go. As a career I like that a lot; it just seems like a creative place that he can keep going back to.

When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.

I want to play Keith Richards.

I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

R. Kelly is my favorite singer.