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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

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.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.