Be committed to your art form, be authentic.

"LOVE LIKE BLOOD" - if you don't know it yet, you should definitely have a listen to the song of the same name by Killing Joke, released in 1985!

Vocalist Jaz Coleman about the inspiration for this song:
"That’s an interesting one. That was inspired by the author Yukio Mishima, who wrote The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan. He was a great author. It was his views on writing with your blood as an artist that really inspired me. It’s a metaphor for the commitment an artist must take to his art form. And I loved the warrior principal, to freedom with blood, if you like. When I was reading Spring Snow, one of Mishima’s novels, I really couldn’t speak for 24 hours after reading that book – it hit me so hard. And it inspired me at the same time.
The song itself was a distillation of everything that we hold dear, and one must aspire to walk and talk what you write about in your songs – actually live it. That’s the other part of art, isn’t it? You can’t just be conceptual, writing songs. It’s the way you live your life, as well. It’s as important as the way you play your instruments or the music you create. This is just as important."

Isn't that great, crazy and true at the same time? Art inspires.