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For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.