Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ ( , June 10, 1996)]
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting.
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
