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What
are the positive and the negative aspects of it?
If you weigh the pros
and the cons,
I'd say that language
is just as bad as it is good.
How
do you use your poetry to create
a
lasting impact beyond your lifetime?
'What
do you care about; what are you looking for in
life; what is your moral foundation?'
'Give me
an example; give me some specific concrete detail.'
I
love doing that, and it's good for people.
So my poetry, I think of it as like calls-to-action –
I
don't want to be the reason that somebody sits in a hole
reading a book for their entire life.
Do
you plan on having children, and if so,
are
there any scruples that you plan to instill in them?
As
far as scruples – empathize.
Listen
to people, understand where they're coming from.
Put
your head in other peoples' heads;
put
your head in animals' heads; put your head in everything's
head:
put
your head in your sandwich's head and realize that your sandwich
wouldn't want you to scarf it;
your sandwich would want you to savor
it. …
you will be living your life as a good person,
because you
will be treating everything as precious.
And everything is precious.
How
do you stay grounded?
The
things that make you afraid?
Go and touch
them – in safe, controlled ways.
The
things that you like
too much?
Learn how to control
that – sometimes you've just got to eat;
if
you're like, “Aah, I'm so afraid of getting fat,”
go
and binge until the point where you can't stand up
and
be like, “Maybe I don't
like food so much,”
and
then eat
a salad and enjoy it …
learn
to attach positive
emotions
to
the things
you know
are good
in life.
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A lot of people say that
you're not really an artist
until you have an audience
to show your art to?
Anybody
who cares about being a real artist isn't a real artist –
it's
like, 'I'm a skater. And I wear skater clothes.'
No you're not; you
are an actor.
Anybody
who says, 'This is what I am,' is an actor.
So
the reason to put your art out there is not to be an artist;
the
reason to put our art out there is because you like your art
enough that you want it to be the best art it can be –
and you don't have enough time in your life to figure it
out on your own.
Other people can help you.
Cool?
Don't be scared;
everything is drafts.
I was just wondering –
what your favorite sense was?
I don't
– I don't want to hurt any of my sense's feelings.
'Cause
they're all feelings;
that's all they have.
Do you ever notice what you
notice in the world as a writer?
I read something once about
how writers notice different things...
I
feel like there's a distance
that some
self-affected writers –I AM
THE WRITER–
those people,
they step back and they're like,
'What's the next thing I'm gonna
write about/OOH, you
look like
a good character {suck,suck,suck}
OH, what are you doing now?
Oh, I bet you- I bet you're thinking
about your
grandma, and/Ohhh
{scribble,scribble,scribble} ... ,'
But at some point–LIVE
YOUR LIFE– you're
like, 'Shit! I've been watching
people so much,
I
haven't been living my own life.'
And
so I feel like, the best way, to absorb
those things
is
through the path of empathy:
you look at people
and
you try to put yourself inside them –
not
as a literary or a rational exercise,
but just to feel
it.
Just because you're like,
'{leans back, smiling} I wonder
what it's like
to be you. Aw...'
Curiosity, right?
Like, 'What did all five of my senses
just go through?'
that's a rewarding experience as a human being.
Not as a
writer.
So –writer-schmiter–
everybody
should do that.
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