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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

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

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

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.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

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.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.