I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind...

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind...

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm...

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm...

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm...

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm...

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original...

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original...

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree...

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree...

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to...

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to...

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision...

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision...

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell...

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell...

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't...

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't...

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work -...

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work -...

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are...

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are...

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with...

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with...