Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.
It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'
I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.
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.
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.