Quotes About Artistry

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

Nobody does our music better than us.

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.