Quotes About Artistry

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just the Bree lane.

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

A lot of bands just entertain you. I'm all about entertainment - I do it every day - but there's only certain things in your life that stick around. I think P.O.D. has done that for a lot of people, and I'm happy for that.

I'll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I'm like, 'I wish I could have done this, I would've done that'. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos.

I think it's a shame that 'Woman in Chains' wasn't a hit at the time, although it's become one of people's favorite songs.

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.