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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

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 need to express.

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

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.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.