Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.
I love the string band. I love the sound of it, the possibilities of it, I love the physical sensation of creating and performing in it. It's my voice.
I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.
As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.
As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.
I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.
I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.
I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.
We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
Everyone has said I got my own sound.
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.
As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
