These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.
My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I'm not just coming and going. They know that I'm here to stay.
I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go.
When we started writing this kind of music in the beginning, I didn't think that many people would listen to it, but over the years our fan base just kept growing and growing. Now, it's like we do it for us and our fans.
The good thing about Twitter is that theres not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them. Its really fun in that way.
I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.
You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.
Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.
I keep growing my fan base. My last project 'Heartless' sold more mixtapes than some big artists on major label albums.