Tinie Tempah Quotes

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

I think, as a performer, the biggest challenge is that you want to do a good job, pushing yourself. You want to go the extra mile every time.

The world does not want to see a Pixar film that's not great.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

As the days progressed, I felt as if YNK' was my first film. That is because the director was hellbent on perfectionism. He was insistent about getting the best out of me.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.

I love his [Brad Furman] ferocious desire for perfection and his love of vitality, it feeds me, man. It feeds him and it feeds the whole crew. And he's got huge respect for talent. And that's why talent goes in and gives it 300% percent.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.