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As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.