You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.
The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.
I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.
I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.