Quotes About Artistry

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

I liked the structure of ballet.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.

You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it's the first time you're playing it, too.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

I try to ignore people's opinions about my music - you don't want to hold yourself back because of that stuff.

Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible.

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.