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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

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.

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.