Artist Ego Quotes

I remember Bumpy Knuckles came in wearing all mink everything and said, 'Yo, when I spit my verse, I gotta pull my guns out and aim them.' He was serious! I told him that I was going to duck in the event that those guns accidentally went off. He pulled out the twin glocks, spit his verse in one take and said, 'I've got a meeting to go to' and left!

If you say I just yell on records, that means you ain't a real fan of me, and I would never even give your comment the time of day.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.

I am an important artist. And I make art. Therefore, my opinion matters.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Every artists wants to be applauded

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.