Pastoral Resources

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.