Quotes About Artistry

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Personally, it all feels like I've been filming just one long film the whole time and I have no personal like or dislike for any of the films that I've done. I feel like all of the all of them are important to me, all of the cast and all the staff that I've worked with have also been very important to me.

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

The joy of being a chameleon on stage is that you can be anything, and yet you're not any of those things as well.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.

I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

I don't want to get on stage and just be another act.

Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.