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The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

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

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

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

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.