Kind Quote by Nicolas Cage

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

— F. Murray Abraham

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for…

— John Dykstra

It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I…

— Raymond Pettibon

There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a…

— Lars von Trier

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

— Joshua Mohr

I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But…

— Garrett Hedlund

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

— Joe Eszterhas

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through…

— Bruce Springsteen

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially,…

— Derek Ridgers

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

— Sergei Polunin

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein