Quotes About Art

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

Songwriting really anchored me.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward.

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

As soon as 'General Admission' came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.