Quotes About Artistry

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

I'm a huge Ang Lee fan and a huge Larry McMurtry fan.

I only want to exist as a character. I don't want people to think of the actor Lee Je-hoon when they see my roles.

I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.

I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

When I am on stage, I feel completely free and just want to let go.

I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'

Leona Lewis made some really nice albums.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.

I will keep working on my own music because my heart lies there.

Eyeliner is a lifelong thing. You'll never get it perfect.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

Music has given me a fantastic lifestyle.

Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.

I worked on perfect beauty for a lifetime.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.