As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people don't know me as an artist.
You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.
It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.
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.
I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
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.