Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
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.
