Quotes About Artistry

A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

I love how the sewers express their vision. They all have their own personalities, and that's what they bring to the room.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, 'Machine Gun Kelly' - it is very loud, and it says a lot.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Personally, I just want to hear good songs.

I take all of my music seriously and personally.

I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

That's what all of us, as writers, actors and comedians, set out to do - shine a light on new perspectives.