Bill Clegg Quotes

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually. I'm a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.