Quotes About Artistry

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there.

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

I play a very streamlined piano.

Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.

For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I have a 200-song catalogue in the streets and I never got any money off that.

I played Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I remember thinking it's incredible to see all the actresses in the past that've played her. It's quite strengthening. You feel a part of the family of actresses going through and giving something of themselves to the role.

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands. In this case, I felt like it would benefit from me singing, and I wanted it to have that sound.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.