I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
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 make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.
For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.