Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
I was a musician first before anything.
It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.
The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.