Quotes about Artistry

I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.

I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Never a day without a line.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

I am for the artist, who is more alone than he looks. I am not for the reformer, who is always active but usually has nothing to give. The real thing that you do is a lonely thing. And remember the paradox that you become more social in order that you may become more of an individual.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.