Quotes About Artistry

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I'm very much a stickler about the actual animation. I'm not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me.

I think a lot of rappers limit themselves by doing the gangster movies and that's stereotypical for a rapper.

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.

Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.

I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Alongside the iconic 'South Pacific,' I absolutely loved working on 'Bright Star' with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.

That was very flattering, meeting Steve Vai and hearing his stuff, because he was kind of a fan, even though we kind of dumbed down what he was doing and what people were doing in the '80s. We weren't doing solos; we were doing sounds and all this creepy, trippy stuff.

People who know my music are like 'Yo, that's Steve G-Lover rapping this 'Paper Boi' song. It's hot. I need this song.' It's funny because the song came about so fast, but the idea had been simmering for a while.

I love to collaborate with artists, like Guy Bourdin and Steven Klein, who don't have any boundaries.

I love Steven Meisel and David Sims' work, I think they're both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level as them one day.

I have always wanted to work with Steven R. Monroe, and when I read his script, I was blown away! I think 'Complacent' hits a nerve that people try so desperately to avoid, which is what I love about Steven's work.

Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went into that.

I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

I've been fascinated with Stevie Nicks for a long, long time. I've written 'Stevie Nicks' inside everything I've made for the past 20 years.

Stevie Nicks is dope.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

When I saw Santana for the first time, I was really inspired. Same with Stevie Ray Vaughn.