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I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.