Quotes About Artistry

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

And I've always loved playing solo.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

Sometimes, with vocalese, I'm dealing with something, a great solo from the past, which is so iconic I can't presume to change it or mess with it.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don't really philosophically believe in solo records.

If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.