I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.
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I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'
It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?'
People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.
When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'
My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.
When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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