Quotes About Artistry

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.