Jimmy Somerville Quotes

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.

I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.

My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

It may seem that with the new breed of actors - Arjun, Varun, Siddharth, Ayushmann, Sushant - there is suddenly too much of a hustle to make space for oneself, but acting is subjective. And we motivate one another.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

I never imagined myself being a rapper.

The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements.

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for 'Lean On' was like a dream come true for me.

It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.