Quotes About Artistry

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

We've always believed in our music.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.

Our music contradicts our look.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national boundaries. It was a huge revelation when we realized that our music has such power.

You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's important everyone feels expressed and represented.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

I was mesmerised by South cinema and the kind of work is done out here.

A lot people hit the road trying to make some cash. We are out here trying to do something that we really believe in. That's what all of our musical heroes always did.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

I think it's really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.