To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.
We knew we were making records for a certain demographic. We didn't look outside of that.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
