I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
I don't talk about my personal life with the press.
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.
I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.
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