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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

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

You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.