A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.
A lot of actors flame out.
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.
I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.
