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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.