My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.
Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.
To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.
No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.
All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.
A true artist is always out of his time.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.
