Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.