You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.