Artistic Milestone Quotes

Although there are people who regard 'Do You Want More?!!!??!' as our first major release, I think 'Things Fall Apart' was the real arrival of The Roots, so to speak.

Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.

It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

I feel like my breakout moment had to have been when I dropped 'Drip Season 3.' I feel like it was just a real good body of music.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

As an artist, I feel you can have a debut just once.

'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.

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

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.