My goals and plans

The short version: my goal is to become a songwriter that is both artistically and commercially successful. Write great songs, stay off of drugs and out of courtney love. (bad joke)

I hated the music and entertainment industry for long time. It is filled with phonies and dicks, maybe I am wrong. But I have always loved art and I've always wanted to be an artist and a composer. Except I don't want to be the poor starving artist stereotype. My idols are not elliott smith and kurt cobain but they are 50 Cent and Jay Z. It doesn't have anything to do with rap or rock; it has to do with mental attittude.

50 Cent and Jay Z aren't only successful artists and musicians but they are successful businessmen. They aren't thugs, they're warrior-ceos. They ain't the soft she-man stereotype. I can't fucking stand the soft she man. As much I love elliott smith's music I want to slap him around and tell him to grow some fucking man balls.

Anyway, my point is that I believe art is supposed to be both beautiful, neccessary and practical. I think the starving artist is really just a bad one that is out of touch with the world. I think great art and music must both be artistically great and commercially viable. Both/and. NOT either/or. You can write a great 50 minute art song in your basement with abstract noise added, but nobody is feeling that shit.

The second thing I have to say is that I get the feeling some people get into the entertainment industry because they want to be "big stars". I really hate that crap. I don't hate people who want to be stars: that is their business and I have nothing to do with it. I'm fine with them wanting it. But my own value system is that I'm all about the music and the art, and I don't want to become a successful songwriter because I want to be famous or something. Honestly the money and wealth, I want. The women I want. The art and creativity I want. But I don't need or want fame, and I don't want anything in ridiculous proportions. I'm all about the art, not the ego.