Quotes About Artistry

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

When I was a kid I was definitely into Neil Young.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good.

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Writers are nerds.

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

I've always been a huge Eric Church fan. I'll never forget being in college listening to his first album and how much it inspired to write my own music.

For an artiste to grow, for a person to grow, you have to learn. A learner cannot afford to have an ego. Learning can never stop. If it does, then it is death.

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

I will never stop making music.

I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.

I never stop working on songs.

I'd love to be the new Kurt Cobain.