I Don't Care How Impossible It Seems.

Sometimes The European And North American Public Like Some Things To Be Exotic And Kept At Arm's Length. They Don't Want Sometimes To Know That Foreign Artists Are Doing Something That's At Least As Relevant As What's Being Done Here.

There's Still A Feeling That Uncensored Emotions Make A Good Song. They Don't. Pure Emotion Is Just Somebody Screaming At You, Or Crying. It Doesn't Communicate Anything.

There's Still A Feeling That Uncensored Emotions Make A Good Song. They Don't. Pure Emotion Is Just Somebody Screaming At You, Or Crying. It Doesn't Communicate Anything. It Has To Be Mediated With Some Skill And Craft, In Order To Communicate It To A Second, A Third, Or A Fourth Person. That Doesn't Make It Any Less Real. And It Doesn't Make It Any Less True. But It Does Mean That, Yeah, It's The Combination That Makes It Work.

I Think It's Really Hard To Make Songs That Pursue An Agenda. You Can Kind Of Do It A Little Bit Through A Character, So The Character Gives Voice To Something Or Their Story, The Story Of The Character Tells You Something, But, For Me Anyway, It's Really Hard To Write Directly About Politics.

The Wage For Most Musicians Is A Modest Amount, And That Includes Me Some Of The Time.