When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.