Quotes About Artistry

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

Everybody steals my lines.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

When your Dad was the creator of 'Moby Dick' you kind of steer clear of getting compared in a solo-ing aspect.

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.