BeBe Zahara Benet Quotes

I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.

I'm not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I'm definitely not doing a completely brand-new hour probably by the beginning of the tour.

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

I like to prepare each tour in a different way.

It's a long process for me since I am unable to write a script faster.

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

We always make music and continue to make hits.

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.

If I get an iTunes check, I take the money out and say, 'OK, with this money I'mma go shoot me this many videos, with this money I'm going to do this amount of studio sessions.'

If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it is the same with my music. I've got so many pieces of music and songs waiting to be heard.

All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.

I'm constantly writing.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.

Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.