Alison Moyet Quotes

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.