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I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

I didn't want to be an artist.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.

A lot of people don't know me as an artist.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.