I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.
I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
My goal is to communicate how powerful the breaking down of artistic barriers can be when grounded in thought, intention, and a true understanding of all the forms that are being experimented with.
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.
It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.
I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.
'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
