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.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
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