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Rap has always had a braggadocios flavour to it. That goes all the way back to 'Rapper's Delight.'
But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.
I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.