Pastoral Resources

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

The best artists are gone now.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.