Quotes About Artistry

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

I particularly remember with 'Casino,' everyone was like, 'It's not 'Goodfellas!'' No, it's not 'Goodfellas.' That's right: it's a different movie. Now, everyone thinks 'Casino' is a masterpiece.

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

I've always tried to come up with something that would catch your ear.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.

I was probably 16 or 17 when 'Core' came out, and I just remember how Scott could cater to the song and create these characters. That blew me away.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.

For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

We're all just cats trying to be original, which is what I think being a B-boy is about.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Both my assistant and my wife tell me that during battle scenes, when a character is making a 'guwaa' sort of face, my face also ends up going 'guwaa.' So afterwards, my whole face is tired. I guess it's because I'm the kind of guy who gets caught up in his own work.

I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.

Some choreographers have been cautious about working with me.

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.