I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

World peace is one project that we have to do together.

We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

These days, DJ's are the ones who are bringing fresh sounds to the music world. In fact, they are creating a new spatial music. They are the space transformers of the universe.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

You change the world by being yourself.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

Art is my life and my life is art.

I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

Art is a way of survival.