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.
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.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
