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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.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

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.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.