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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.