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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.