Quotes About Artistry

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Acting opened me up.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

I can operate in half-a-song format.

When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.