The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
I think as a writer, as an artist, I've grown a lot.
You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.
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