I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
“The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.”