At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.
The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.