The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.