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This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

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.

I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

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

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.