Holly Johnson Quotes

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

We have always been dreamers, and we are admittedly overachievers, and coming out of high school, we didn't want to be struggling artists.

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some reason it doesn't get the audience. So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

If we sang in English, we would have global No. 1s, and no one would say anything.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists. I'm in a driven circle. I've had a lot of opportunities that other people wouldn't necessarily have and seen some cool places.

I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.