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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."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"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."
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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