Pastoral Resources

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.