It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
My strength never came from political echelons it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.