People aren’t supposed to be like me, sing like me, live like me, but now they’re paying me fifty thousand dollars a year for me to be like me.
“Every artist worth her salt knows what I mean — either one chooses the well trodden path, platitude, sentimentality, the current orthodoxy, whatever, or one blazes a trail which is, no matter the nature of the work, part of the process of becoming.”
Rikki Ducornet