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I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.