It is interesting, isn’t it? Because like, it’s a weird, weird world, and I think that – I don’t know. It kind of scares me a little bit, because I think that these kids – with bands now as well, there was no accessibility to people like Michael Jackson or Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones. If you wanted to try to get in touch with them, you and a million other people had to write a letter to a fan club. There wasn’t this immediacy. We live in a world now, not only the music industry but the world, where like, accessibility is paramount, and demand and obtaining something quickly and being accessible to the way that people market things, market their personality and it just dilutes things. Kids don’t understand. Kids think that they want to connect with these celebrities on a personal level, but they actually don’t. Like don’t meet your heroes. The only reason that all these pop stars were pantheons of pop culture was because you didn’t know fuckin’ anything about them. That’s why.
I’ve met David Bowie and people like that, and they’re amazing figures, but they’re amazing people. Just people. And it sounds like such an obvious, naïve thing to say, but you do realize that there’s a lot less illusion now with rock stars and pop stars. We live in a world where you want to know everything about their personal life and you basically can do that. Kids feel entitled to a response. Or kids feel genuinely ostracized when maybe you don’t interact with them. [Laughs] And that’s fucking crazy.
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