'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.
I haven't said this yet, but my goal for this 'Beautiful' album is not to say, 'I'm beautiful,' or, 'OK, I'm so cool.' This is, honestly, an album written for the listeners.
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.
If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.
I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'
The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
