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If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n' roll.

As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish 'gets lost in translation' - no pun intended.

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm just beginning, and I'm certainly not worthy of demigod status. There's absolutely no danger of me reaching that.

Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.