“I’m not making art to become famous. I’m not making art to create a masterpiece that’s going to stun the world. I’m creating art because it makes me happy. That was the number one thing that I had to realize and then practice was because...
“ My friend Anthony McCarten, he wrote The Theory of Everything, he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic. I was telling him about the story of my house and there was a guy who had this duel and all this crazy stuff that had happened back in the early 1800s. And...
“In my mind…I need three items to create a scene that’s worthy of…devoting the time to make it interesting for the person driving by. I want someone, and I don’t mind that they look at them and think, “What’s that...
“I always tell young artists to make sure that they have all the computer skills that they can possibly get. That they learn Photoshop, that they learn Illustrator, that they become great photographers and understand images and how they’re put together....
Jimmy Ryan has been Carly Simon’s guitarist since the 1970s. He’s an American artist, composer, producer, and author with a career that has spanned six decades. Beginning at seventeen, he and his college band, The Critters, had their first top forty hit, “Younger...
