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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

You need a big ego to be an artist.