Multimedia Artist Quotes

You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I'm in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.

I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing as well - ultimately, I am a storyteller.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

I look at myself more as really an entertainer. Yes, I act, but there are other things that I can do.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.

I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also want to win a Tony. I want to be one of those guys like Frank Sinatra or Sammy Davis Jr. that crossed all those barriers of entertainment.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.