Artist's Journey Quotes

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18 years old and I was ready to go to college; that was the next step for me. Then suddenly I had a song that blew up... and I had this artist's career and I was on tour with these big names and I didn't know what I was doing.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

As an artist, I feel you can have a debut just once.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.