Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.