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

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

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

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.

I have to be able to be the artist that I am.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

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!