I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.
Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
