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I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
