Quotes About Artistry

Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too loud now.

I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love with the work, and that's all there is.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

I love me some Kendrick Lamar, love J. Cole.

I can sing 'Love Me Do,' very well.

For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

I love doing 'I Will Always Love You.'

I've always loved playing music and I always will.

I have loved playing every character that I essayed.

I've written on Apple Macs since the early 80s - they're lovely to use and beautiful to look at.

I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

I grew up loving Vince Gill. That guy sounds just like his record - or better than his record. I've always been such a fan.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.