Quotes About Artistry

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

I've been very lucky to work with great filmmakers. But I think my days of just freely acting regularly, that being my sole creative fulfillment, are gone.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

I feel bonded to 'Take Me.' I'm proud of it. It's empowering, and at the end of the day, it's a pretty solid pop hit.

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

For me, writing and creating music can be quite a solitary thing.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.

My solo show, 'A Lot More Me,' is part drag show, part burlesque show, part circus show, and part fashion show.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

SOLO' is a fun, self-loving song. Through it, I wanted to show different sides of me.

I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.