Quotes About Artistry

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.

I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.

It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'

The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I'd almost become a parody of myself. All people wanted was pink hair and for me to sing 'I Want to Be Free.' There's nothing wrong with either of those but people need to see you as a person for you to be an artist.

My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.