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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it’s basically down to you and what you want or need.
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.
You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music – look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
I think politics come out of psychology.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there’s innocence contained in you but there’s also innocence in the process of being lost.
I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.