I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.