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I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have, especially being an artist, is that we can create music that can build bridges and smash down very bad ideas.

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

All my life, even as an actor, I felt like I was really trying to be dutiful, which sometimes got in my way of being creative and being an artist.

After college, I joined TVB in Hong Kong as an 'artist.'

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

When I first came in, family life wasn't at the forefront of your career or who you were as an artist. You was even supposed to be projected as a single man for the public.

Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.