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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.