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I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Artists are like everybody else.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.