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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."
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"Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing."
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"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."
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"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."
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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun."
Love

"And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion."
Brother

"You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me."
People

"I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason."
Artist

"When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile."
Emotional

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."
Public

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."
Actor

"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off."
Work

"I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard."
Time

"I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means."
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