Quotes About Art

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

I admire 'Urinetown.'

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

I adore film, and I adore music.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

My aesthetic is very black.

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.