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You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

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.

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.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

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.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

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.