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The best artists are gone now.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

The more far-out artists, the better.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

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