There isn’t a single artist out there, I’m sure, who wouldn’t take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we’d definitely take it. – Madi Diaz
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that’s just making another artist, my clothing line – capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that – capitalizing off every move I make. – Nayvadius Cash
I’m a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published. – David Labrava
I’m an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for ‘Vice Magazine,’ and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones. – Molly Crabapple
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome. – Cai Guo-Qiang
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode. – Gary Wright
I don’t think I live the lifestyle that’s expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I’m just not that dude. – Miguel
If you’re using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through. – Dave Gibbons
Acting… was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? – Elia Kazan
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. – Neil Gaiman
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place. – Chris Lowe
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. – Charles R. Jackson
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That’s not what I grew up around. – G-Eazy
If you’re an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it’s something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I’ve always found it so fascinating. – Damien Chazelle
I’ve seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook ‘likes’ and Twitter followers than they do. – Neil Strauss
Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it’s Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever. – David Shields
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist – a painter, a decorative painter. – Gyorgy Ligeti
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He’s the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I’ve ever seen. I like to be around people like that. – Max Weinberg
I don’t feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I’m ‘edgy.’ Been there, done that mentality. I’m just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist. – Chrissie Fit
I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop. – Dane DeHaan
I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it. – David Byrne
They consistently hobble artists’ in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don’t buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. – Malcolm Wilson
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I’d see the interest they’d have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that’s the ultimate thing – to know that what you’ve done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you. – Eddie Trunk
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. – Drew Barrymore
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist’s studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure. – Caio Fonseca
Because it’s difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it’s difficult to have a career, it’s even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it’s harder in other fiercely contested fields. – Elizabeth Price
