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"Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones."
"I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself."
"I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more."
"My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah."
"Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever come."
"I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them."
"If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart."
"There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright."
"Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing."
"My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people."
"If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity."
"It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair."
"[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him."
"The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities."
"I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible."
"Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing."
"If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists."
"The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist."
"I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that."
"I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things."
