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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.