“Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, ...” — Martin Amis Quote

“Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.”

“The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.”

“All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'”

“I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.”

“The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.”

“I was 13 years old. I feel like I didn't have a sense of artistry, and I didn't have a sense of the music that I wanted to make, and every time I'd go into the studio, and I'd make my EP, a month later I'd scrap it and be like, 'I hate every song. I don't wanna do it.' Because that's how 13-year-olds are.”