I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
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 see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.