It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.
It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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