Quotes About Artistry

I have done a lot of animated stuff over a 30-year period, and you do have to go much bigger on that stuff in order for it to come across.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.'

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I'm not trying to appeal to anybody. I just try to do my thing and make the best music I can make.

Sometimes when you sign to label as a black artist, they expect you to have a certain appeal. It's like they think they know what appeals to your people better than you do.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

I've appeared on some other people's albums.

Which other actor has appeared in one-half of a dance show as a girl and in the second-half as a man?

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

There was a time when individual artistes were appreciated. I miss that.