Quotes about Artistry

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

That's what we love to do and I think our skating's at it's best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

We are born makers. We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.