Quotes About Artistry

I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my friends. It started like that, and then it went into more music-y stuff.

As much as I love doing music, it can get monotonous sometimes.

I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

Singing is something I do every day - not every other month. When I touch the mic, the same thing happens every time.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

Every performance is different because I'm different; my mood is different.

Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.

It only takes me about four days to write an album. It don't take that long. I just gotta have the feeling. If I don't have the feeling, it's a different story. I gotta be in the mood.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

For an artist it is important to show what your mood is at that particular moment.

When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.

I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.

It didn't matter if we put out 'The Dark Side Of The Moon,' we weren't going to be liked by everyone.

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.