It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.
If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist