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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

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

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.