A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
