I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.
It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.
There's trials and tribulations in a band.
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was.
You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake.
