Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician don't do art, you won't be an artist.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

Early days Born in Geneva, Switzerland, his father was an artist and in 1805 moved the family to Russia to find work.

Depending on who you read, an arts organization or an artist, who tries to attract the attention of a potential single ticket buyer, now competes with between three and 5,000 different marketing messages a typical citizen sees every single day.