I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.
I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.
I am a poet, and I speak poetically.
Color and I are one. I am a painter.
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.
I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.
My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.
When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
Music has always been in me.
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.
I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.
I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
I don't think a solo album is me. I don't consider my voice to be that kind of a voice. Not that I don't love singing, but Broadway was my original dream. That's what I've always wanted to do.
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
