MO Quotes

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

I love doing concert choreography because everything is about your vision, come heck or high water. Of course, you also take the blame for everything, but it's wonderful to be able to make up dance for dance's sake.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.