I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.
You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
I was raised to be some kind of artist.
This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.