When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.
I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
