How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I was always in love with the idea of making music - and always wanted to be involved in either the creative side or the industry side.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.