Quotes About Artist

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

I usually license my stuff to a label. Make the album, license it to a big label and get it back after four years.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

I wasn't one of those artists where people throw my song and just dance to it. People actually listened to the lyrics.

Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not really the kind of artist that we'd spend our money on.' They never saw the value of Too $hort and E-40.

I'm a huge Top 40 lover.

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

I just think it was because I was known as a lyricist that's what people only wanted to hear that from me. If you're an artist you have to expand, you have to grow.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

I'll say one of my all time favorite albums would have to be Willie Hutch, 'The Mack.'

Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.