I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.
I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
I don't necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker.
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.
I'm not an intellectual composer.
I just call myself an artist, really.
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
