I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all. – Joe Lando
I wouldn’t be an artist if I didn’t have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to. – Kelsea Ballerini
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. – Kevin Bacon
People weren’t even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It’s like I’ve had to prove that I’m an artist. – Kate Bush
So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I’ve been hated, I’ve been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I’ve been heard. – Liz Phair
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man. – Liam Neeson
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one’s work. – Jillian Mayer
I’m not an artist or a collector. I’m a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I’m not doing things the right way. – Leo Fitzpatrick
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. ‘Rent’ was that place for me. – Leslie Odom, Jr.
You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it. – Michelle Obama
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. – Kurt Cobain
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, ‘She’s on our side.’ These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn’t have to deal with. – Kara Walker
As a new artist there’s always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. – Josh Groban
I’ve always been a ‘write first’ artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing. – Jeffrey Brown
The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity. – Jerry Moss
I’ve always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well. – Katherine Jenkins
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well – but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything. – Jill Sobule
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you’ll see the characters and what they’re doing and what they’re saying. – Jonathan Winters
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? – Laura Dern
‘The Voice’ gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn’t know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential. – Judith Hill
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. – Kenneth Noland
