You can’t go to American Idol and say you would like to sing a Rock Song! Ideally you shouldn’t be able to go to a music store to buy Rock Music.

I think every Artist – Painter/Writer/Photographer/Journalist – starts as a Rock Star, and then some get ‘recognized’; and I wonder if after they have ‘arrived’, do they sometimes sit and wonder if they are a Rock Star anymore? Do they feel like a fake? Or at least caged?

Milan Kundera in one of his novels introduces a character who is a published writer, but you shouldn’t go to him and tell him that you like his work, since he considers his own work inferior to the greats he admires and thinks poorly of people who like his work.