Quotes About Artistry

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

I was really enjoying playing 'The Sea,' but it is quite an intense and emotional record.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

I feel like, a lot of times, when you have a specific sound that you want and are searching for, you want the right group to help you put the kind of music out that you want.

I was inspired by Solange's album, 'A Seat At The Table,' from the moment that I heard it. She has clearly taken the time to create a unique body of work and emote through her music from a true place.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.

Nobody owns me or my music.

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

I would love to be able to do the pace that people used to do decades ago, where you'd make a record a year, or something was wrong with you.

It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would see eight bars and you would know definitely who did it.

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.