I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
'New Girl' is how I make my living, and if I'm going to do a movie, it's because I really, artistically, want to do it.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
