Quotes About Artistry

I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

I'm obsessed with artists like Lady Gaga. I'm obsessed with artists like Lana Del Rey.

There are so many things to learn from Lady Gaga.

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

I used to like Lady Gaga. I still love her. But what I like about LMFAO is that they're completely outside of the box; they're completely different. They're not ridiculous, but they are not afraid of it. And also, it's a certain type of artistry.

I was 14 when I decided I wanted to start doing music and stuff. I was a really big fan of Ben Howard, and he put out a really amazing album in 2014, and then, after being inspired by my dad and Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran, I wanted to start writing songs.

As for Lady GaGa, she's just a copy of Madonna.

Jeremy Lamb is a great dancer.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

We may not be proud of every song we've ever done - or been forced to do - but I believe we've done more than meets the eye.

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element.

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

Chop Suey!' was really heavy, but it had a lot of melodic parts. It was fast and frenzy.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head. I never really know until I hear the song back and it's finished if it actually is good.