Quotes About Artistry

I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.

I'm an entertainer, that's my business, and yet you hope at some point in your career you will do something that will mean more to people.

There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer.

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

I've definitely always had a passion for entertaining.

For me, drag is all about making people happy and entertaining.

E-40 is another person I love working with because he is so entertaining.

I love entertaining people! It's who I am.

Something very special happens with music when it is written with great enthusiasm.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I'm not entirely sure why I write.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

I ended up having an epiphany that no body of work I put out will ever mean as much to me as '3:33 AM.'

It's not about the equipment. Be less concerned about what kind of camera you have and more about what kind of effect you're trying to accomplish. Finding an original take is much more important than what you shoot it with.

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it.

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don't have the songs, it doesn't close the deal.