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.
As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.
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 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.
'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.
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?
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.
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.
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.
For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
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.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
We don't like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects - it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact.
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.
