Working As A Solo Artist Has Given

There Are All These Different Areas Of Specialization. That's It. You Have To Be A Specialist Nowadays. There's No Other Way. I Was An Artist For A Long Time, But I Was Always Into Being A General Practitioner. I Did A Little Of This And A Little Of That. And Nothing Got Me Anywhere. You Have To Specialize. If You Don't Specialize, It Takes You Until You're About Fifty Years Old Before Anybody Notices That You're Doing Anything At All.

I Always Work On New Year's Eve, No Matter What.

I Don't Mind If My Skull Ends Up On A Shelf As Long As It's Got My Name On It.

To Be An Artist You Have To Be As Much A Businessman To Succeed, You Have To Spend An Equal Amount Of Time Doing Business As You Spend Doing Your Craft.

That Was Always What I Felt Was The Beauty Of Rock 'n' Roll, It Was Entertainment And Showbiz Yet It Had The Idea Of The Voice Of The People, It Had An Essence To It Which Was Socially Motivated. Not That I Want To Change To World, You Know? But It Was Sort Of Relevant To Real Life, It Involved The Real Essence Of Poetry Or The Real Essence Of Fine Art. But It Was Also Entertainment. That Was The Real Vitality.