I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.
Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.