Martyn Ware – HuffPost 7.16.13

Mike Ragogna: What advice might you have for new artists?

Martyn Ware: Okay…I’ll tell you what I’ve got. Firstly, approach your work from an artistic viewpoint and derive enjoyment from that. If you approach it from a commercial viewpoint, it will almost certainly fail in the first instance. I suppose if you get into the field where you’re a professional songwriter and you write songs for successful artists… But I’m talking about as a performer, if you write your own material. I’ve always found that if you approach things with an artistic heart without caring whether it sells or not, that’s when the interesting stuff happens. You have to take it on the chin, some things. But really, when you hit the motherlode, that’s going to put you above ninety-five percent of everybody else.