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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.