Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.
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When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but you want to accomplish that rather than seeing that you don't have to do everything. Just focus on your strengths.
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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