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You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

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

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

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'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.

I'm committed to the purity of my art form.

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 think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.