Quotes About Artistry

I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time.

This is just a long shot, but I definitely would want to work with Frank Ocean. He's the man.

Frank Ocean - I have so much respect for him.

I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.

Frank Ocean is definitely amazing.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.

I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

I really wanted to have a name that was double-barreled. I think at the time I was listening to a lot of Odd Future - like Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean - and I wanted my name to have a ring to it.

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

At the end of the day, it is good music that matters to me, so I'm open to offers.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

I want people to hear me and say, 'Oh my God, what a voice.'