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

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.