I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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- I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
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