I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.