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I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

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.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.