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Whatever One Considers Art To Be, There Is In Many People A Hunger To Express Themselves Creatively And To Feel Authentic In Doing That.

Jon Krakauer Had Documented It Very Accurately And Very Well But This Kid Made A Real Impression On People, And Likewise They On Him. To Talk To Them Was Very Moving In Many Cases Because They Talk About Him Like They Saw Him Yesterday. In Most Cases They Knew This Kid For A Couple Of Weeks In Their Whole Life And He Just Lasted With Them.

Today, Maturity Is A Word I Associate With Spirituality. It's One Of Those Words That Cause People To Change Their Voice. When Your Voice Gets Higher Because Of What You're Saying, There's A Problem. To Me, The Conflict Of Life Is Part Of The Joy Of Life. There's Got To Be A Recognition Of The Friction That Exists. Maturity Seems Somehow About Getting Careful. I Don't Want To Be Careful.

One Of The Reasons People Sell Out So Quickly Is Because Even The Talented Think They're Frauds. It's A Culture That Doesn't Encourage People To Believe In The Work They Do. You're Told To Second-guess Yourself All The Time. That's Where I Think A Little Hostility And Arrogance Can Save You. And I've Never Been Lacking For Either.

One Of The Things You Don't Have In Haiti Is You Don't Have Anybody On Crack Doing Something Completely Out Of - That's Unpredictable. Even At The Worst Times In Haiti, The Violence That Had Happened, The Lack Of Security That Happened, Was Largely Predictable Because It Was Politically Tied.