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.
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
β"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
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