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I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.