A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.
A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.