To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
Being honest in the spotlight is the worst idea. But I do like when artists are honest and are able to build a persona for the artwork with their honesty. That's really good.
Just too much fast thinking all the time. I think of so many things all at once, it gets exhausting. You start seeing all of these connections around you. . . Everything is connected, composed, coordinated, choreographed. If you start paying attention to these connections, it can drive you insane. And that's why making work is so good, because that's when I'm not thinking, just making.
Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.
When you have a dream, you don't even want to tell yourself straight out that this is what you want. You try to hide it. I never told myself I wanted to be a tennis player. But being an artist, yes, this is what I wanted since I first sat down to draw or paint. I knew that. . . I had that vision.
I really like players who are not naturally gifted and have to achieve their success by other means. I like when people have to win against their own limitations,rather than just being phenomenally blessed.
I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.
I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.
There's nothing like getting feedback that's positive and supportive. That's what I'm all about. I'm really just genuinely doing good music. I'm not looking to be on the cover of magazines and I'm not in it for the fame. I'm not in it for selling or the biggest Pop song in the world. I have to go for critically acclaimed. I'd rather go for my peers that I look up to say "I listen to her record. " I'd rather do a small little touring venue that has two people who support me as opposed to thousands of people. I mean if it happens, it happens but I'm doing it for me.
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.