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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.