Honesty vs. Success: The Artist's Dilemma in Making Music

What's your motivation? What's motivating you to make music? If it's money, then you'll do certain things to make money while you're making music. If you make a beautiful song and you think it's the best song in the world, and someone says, well, that's not really going to be, you know, radio friendly, and you put it in a box and start doing things. If you're willing to compromise, you will. I just know that if you want to be an artist, you have to be honest. And if you want to make money, then do what it takes to make money, do that. But if you want to make music, then you have to say, you know, it doesn't really matter whether this is going to play well on the radio. Doesn't really matter whether I'm going to get a million followers if I do this. I'm doing it because my heart is saying, this is what I need to share and this is what I'm going to do. And I promise you, someone's going to connect with it because it's happening to me.