I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.
Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
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