At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
Interpretation
The speaker reflects a transformation in their perspective towards sharing their music with a wider audience.
This quote illustrates the evolution of an artist's mindset from apathy to a passionate desire for connection through their work. Initially indifferent to their audience, the artist now values the impact and reach of their music, emphasizing the importance of sharing art and creativity with others.
In practice
During an interview about his new album, he shared, 'At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.'
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.
People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
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