Quotes About Artistry

I came through the bebop era, and to me that was enough.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'