For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.
If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.
After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.
The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there are more people writing poetry than possibly read it or can certainly earn a living around it.
It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
