I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.
I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.
I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.
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