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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 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.

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.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

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.

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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

I have a very small physique, so it's a little hard to find suits that really fit me well. I have to wear sizes that are really skinny.

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