It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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.
