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7/2026: At this point in time, after having been recording these aphorisms for over 35 years now, it's probably a good idea to revisit the early ones, especially the first one. Identity, especially to artists, is very important. important because it's directly related to style, and after you've been doing it almost your whole life, you develop a core style. Some artists work in the same style their entire career, like the artist Peter Halley, an artist I always cite because he's been doing the same painting his entire life. Of course, he's done other things, as I have, but I think I have retained my style ever since childhood because it started with an interest in architecture and I'm still working in an architectural way, with frameworks and systems. In music, identity is sometimes something that can be a foundation of your entire life if you've been doing it since your 20s. Take the band Rush, for example, who is currently on tour and playing all the...
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