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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
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"I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!"
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"Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today."
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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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"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
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"I always saw myself as a multi media artist."
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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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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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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
Artist
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
Mistake
"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."
Play
"Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself."
Music
"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."
Time
"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
Education
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex."
Sex
"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."
Musicians
"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."
Age
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