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.
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.
I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.
It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
