I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.
I think because there is the constant looming threat of nepotism and judgment, I really tried to separate what I was doing at MTV, my auditions, anything I was doing creatively, from my family.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.
I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
I'm from the school of putting a lot of hours of practice into playing. But at the same time you have to write original music - that's really important, because that's the things that's going to separate you from everybody else, that's going to give you your unique voice as a music that you create.
I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
I'm not a character in any of my books.
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.
I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one.
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
