Quote

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.