If we are to change our world view images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people he's really needed.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored so if you get debate that's great.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it but they're happy if they do get it.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

I am an artist. The track is my canvas and the car is my brush.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car sew knit cook etc. Statistically there is more I don't do than do.

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist man. I'm going to live like an artist.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it and you've got to be a businessman. But then again you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

In the music business especially the country music business every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard this wave of new artists that comes in.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path my own sound my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom they want good business.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if as I always say you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

The best thing commercially which is the worst artistically by and large is the most successful.