As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.
As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
Through my work, I've learned that if I love it, whether it's music, acting or any type of entertainment, I can overcome any of the obstacles that come my way.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.