The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
The European mind is capitulating. It is capitulating out of weakness, out of [intellectual] sloth, out of apathy, out of lack of imagination
Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
Many artists give up after a while.
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.
When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.
For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.
