From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.
The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
You must be an artist and an actor.
Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.