Quotes About Artistry

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I don't like to deal with studios.

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Many music directors have studios at home.

I don't study; I create.

I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.

I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

I've always loved rock music. I've always loved stuff like the Specials and the Breeders and things like that. But it was hip-hop that really got me into music.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.