I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I`m more disciplined today.
I just could not believe that 30 years later we`re still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that`s a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.