Possible Clues:

• Attributes of avant-garde artist
• One's characteristics begin holding one back
• Genes govern them
• They're characteristic of carriers, and that's flat by the sound of it
• I begin to cover up various personality quirks
• Retrograde art and its peculiarities
• Peculiarities that in the beginning I stood for
• Chaacteristics
• Peculiarities
• There are signs that they sound like carriers, and that's flat