Quotes About Artistry

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.

If you're in the music to move to Hollywood and be in 'People' magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour?

There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity.

I'm not one of them who will get up and mime - I want to completely perform.

I'm a good mimic.

Working with Thiagarajan Kumararaja in 'Super Deluxe' was absolutely mind-blowing.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.

I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

I try to keep the theatrics to a minimum and let the music do the talking.

Minor writers think style is all.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.

She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...

Dolarhyde bore screams as a sculptor bears dust from the beaten stone.