Quotes About Artistry

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I can't see myself doing anything else. I feel like I can touch more people with music.

The more people I can reach with my work, the happier I am, but I'm not going to stop making the music I want to, just because I'm looking for a specific response.

'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.

I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.

You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life' beautifully.

Salaam' is one of my most beautiful creations.

For me, 'Mary Magdalene' is the most beautiful film I've shot with the performances and the script and the actors and ensemble. But not one saw it.