Quotes About Artistry

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I like to work spontaneously.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.