For 30 years, I've produced results for people.
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.
It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.
Once established, reputations do not easily change.
It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.
I don't think you become a name with just one job.
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.
Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.
We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.'
Sometimes I look at new artists trying to come out or trying to make their name and it's like they're coming into the game blind. They don't really know what the world is going to expect from them and they really trying to get in where they fit in but me I almost got the red carpet.
A proven leader always has a proven track record.
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.
