I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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.
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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.
Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.