I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
It's a great thing not trying to make music for a label but just for the love of music again.
There's no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.
I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.
Art is a self-replicating force.
I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.
My biggest obstacle is trying to keep the music pure to what I want to release. I don't want any corporate suit telling me what story to tell.
I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.
A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.
Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.
I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop their own signatures by collecting themselves. On the other hand, though, I think we should also celebrate the fact that there is a lot of art that lives outside of, or on the outskirts of, the art market - and it is doing quite well.
I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.
I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.
I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.
Artists can do whatever they want!
