Quotes About Artistry

It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

I will safely say that I prefer singing a song in a stretch if I am allowed to. A lot of times, I do choose to and do sing the asthayi and antara in one take, respectively. And I give a few takes until I feel it is perfect.

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Our main love has always been pop music. We love the restrictions of it in a certain sense, the length and the repetitiveness. But then how much can you get away with - our intention is always to stretch ourselves.

If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

I've come to realise that being on 'Strictly' is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we'll be okay.

The paso doble is my favourite dance on 'Strictly,' so I'm so pleased I get to do it.

Don't get me wrong, I really like being a judge on 'Strictly.' But my first love and passion is directing and choreography and I will be doing that until the day I die.