Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.
I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
