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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.