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Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

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.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.