I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.
Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.
If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.
I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.
A great artist has to be ready to fail.
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.
I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song.
If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.
I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.
When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never had the concept that I'm going to go somewhere and I'm going to have this career. I just really never thought about all that.
I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.
That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.
To be an artist is to believe in life.
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.
If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
