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I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.

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

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

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

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.