Quotes About Artistry

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

When we were writing 'In Our Bones,' everything was bubbly champagne all the time so that's what ended up on the record.

I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

It gives you a high when you create characters and make them do what you want them to do.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

I would be very wrong to charge anyone to watch me dance or sing.

We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a story song. It didn't really happen to us. But it's definitely fun to have him on the track.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

I'm not trying to chase a radio hit, but at a certain time, you can't make the same album over and over.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

That's where I think a lot of these guys today are just, 'I'm the drummer, man. Check it out. Here's my lick. I just learned this new drum lick. I'm just gonna blast all over the place.' It's like, 'Man, you've got to let the song breathe.'

You don't become a chef to become famous.

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry.

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

Working with BJ The Chicago Kid was amazing.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.