” From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments. “
” You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that’s listening, but they’re in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you. “
” To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way. “
” I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I’m actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope. “
” I am one of those people that’s never been really cynical about life, you know. “
” You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I’m in that moment now where I’m finding the world’s voice. “
” Art isn’t held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you’re a loser if you’re making music until you prove otherwise. “
” I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it. “
” It’s not really that I’m interested in filmmaking. I’m interested in the instrument of it, you know. “
” It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren’t. Never something you set out to be. “
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