Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.