No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.
There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
I try to remember that the job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
