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Maybe I'm just as bad as my critics who hound me.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

I like critics with strong opinions.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to simplify them. They think they can nail your whole life down just by knowing the bare bones of your history in partaking in 10 minutes of conversation.