Iggy Azalea Quotes

You don't get any mixtapes, you know, 'cause I don't like my voice in there. I want to be that, but that's just not me, you know. And I'm very impatient; if I don't do it right, I'll be like, well, 'Ok that's the best I'm gonna do it.' Because I feel like if you take too much time on something, you lose the motivation for it.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.

I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

You can work on an album forever, but finishing it is a whole different deal.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.