Quotes About Artistry

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.

I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

When I make a record, I want to use some electronics, although I still want to keep things pretty basic.

If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

We just decided to make our dancing as important as our MCing and our production. It's an element in hip-hop that a lot of people are afraid to use.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I've always been an elite artist.

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.