Quotes About Artistry

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.

I've got a song with Roscoe Dash - that's next level, man.

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing!

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

I feel like the falsetto is my niche and my sound and something different.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.

I think I always knew aesthetically what excited me the most, and I think I was always looking for that aesthetic in other people and it didn't really happen. I decided to take it upon myself to be the change I wanted to see in nightlife.

Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

56 Nights' one of the best mixtapes ever.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

Songs being nine to 10 minutes long? Everyone is scared to to do it.

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.