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As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!