Artistic Adjustment Quotes

It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.