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You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.