People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.
The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
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've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal in the stuff that I write about.
The best way to watch a film is to not know anything about the person who made it.
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
