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I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

I feel media is important when you are showcasing your work, as people need to know what you are doing.

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

I'm always working and coming up with new and fresh ideas to keep my fans engaged and keep myself relevant.

When I go to parties people recognize me and that's another contact, another tool in my bag of tricks. I don't even have a publicist. I work it.

I don't want to be just a performer.

I want to be visible to my fans.

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.