You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
“Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!”
“95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.”