Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.
They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.
My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.
The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.
I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.
Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.
When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
All my album artwork is body painting.
Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.
There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artworkartistic vision.
I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.
I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.
I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!
I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.
And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that. ' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.
