Quotes About Artistry

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.