"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

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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 see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

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"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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