My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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'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.
