I Think It's Important To

Performance-wise, You Really Need To Be Down In The Trenches; You Need To Do The Hard Work, For A Lot Of Reasons: To Build Yourself As A Performer, To Get A Sense Of The Audience, To Work Hard And To Wonder, 'do I Really Want To Do This?'

I Think What People See In Me Is One Slice Of Who I Am. It Does Permeate My Life In The Sense That I Don't Like To Be Told What To Do, Or How To Be, Or How I Can Do It. But I'm Probably A Lot Tamer Than People Would Expect.

A Lot Of People Would Say "well That's Not A Bad Reputation. You Sound Like A Pussy" And I Would Say Yea. But I Am Passionate About Music And Being Taken Seriously About My Music, So If You're Going To Mess With That, We Have A Problem.

I Don't Give A Damn About My Reputation. You're Living In The Past, It's A New Generation.

At This Point, A Lot Of People Have Made Their Mind Up About Me One Way Or Another. I'm Sure There's A Certain Segment Of Writers Who Won't Ever Give Me The Time Of Day, Hate Me, Don't Get Me, Don't Think I'm Good, Or Whatever. I Guess That's Fine. It's Only An Opinion. There Are Other People Who Do Get It, And Can Be Objective. I Could Be Wrong, But A Lot Of People, Except For Really Young People, Have Made Up Their Minds One Way Or The Other.