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Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

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

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

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

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

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