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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

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

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 an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.