Quotes About Artistry

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.