If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.