We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
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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.
Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
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.
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
Artists can do whatever they want!
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