Everybody knows who you are. Someone has followed you for years, someone learned about you just recently — from friends, someone just heard songs or quoted you. Neither way, you were a brand. A big success for the one that could be anything they wanted but yourself. You were bright, perfect they might say, exceptional. Will they rank you with other brilliant artists after your death, you'll ask, and they'd say yes... But there is still a long time to go, right?