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My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.