There's a message behind everything I do, and the message on this one is that young artists need to know that you gonna get tooken. It's the way of the game. You just gotta be smart enough to Stay in the game long enough and be successful enough to change that.
Snoop Dogg - Change - Artists - Success - Smart

The degree to which I apply myself as an artist, as a song writer, is at the very least absolutely sincere and giving everything that I can. And that counts for something.
Michael Stipe (REM) - Work - Music - Artists - Belief

I was expressing what I was going through. All the better artists. I don't want to use the word 'great' because it'll come off as arrogant or whatever.. all the better artists in history have expressed what they were going through.
Kanye West - Positive - Self - Music - Artists

As an artist the key things you have to do is prove yourself in a live scene, prove yourself in a writing scene, and prove yourself doing covers. They're as important as each other.
Amy Winehouse - Music - Artist - Singing - Performance - Writing - Important