Quotes About Artistry

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

I have become an employee of art.

We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I'd rather encourage people to be creative.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

I love to engage in creativity everyday.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

I have never worked for money. My job is to entertain and I take it very seriously.

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.

I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.