There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have to be able to be the artist that I am.
I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
A lot of people don't know me as an artist.
I was raised to be some kind of artist.
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
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.
I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.