Artistic Preference Quotes

I feel like pop and R&B are just my core.

I prefer writing originals.

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

I will do films in any of the languages, provided the script is good. The region and the language don't matter.

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

The most important thing in art is taste.

When I like an artist, especially a female artist, I really try to support.

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I got into rap because I can't sing. If I could sing, I'd be a singer.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.