I Feel That The World Needs Writers.

We Have To Recognize That It Is A Very, Very Painful Thing For People To Be Exposed To Their Social Community, To Be Exposed In The World, As Not What They Would Have Wanted To Be Seen As. This Is Very Painful And Difficult For People.

I Have Always Been Fascinated By The Human Mind, Conscious And Unconscious - That Is What Writing And Reading Is About, Too. The Why Of Your Life And The Why Of Your Choices And The What Has Happened That You Know And The What That You Don't Know Is Really Riveting, And Psychoanalysts Share My Wonder At How It All Unfolds.

However, There Probably Is A Slight Connection Between The High-wire, Super Sensitivity, Open To Everything And Too Much, And Slightly Fragile Soul Of The Artist And The Need To Self-medicate, Which Can Lead To Bad Trouble Either In Drugs, Or Alcohol. So It's Not That There's No Connection, It's Just That We Can't Make Too Much Of It Because It Isn't The Addiction That's The Issue, It's The Fragility Of Some People Who Do Artistic Work, Who End Up In Rehab Somewhere Or Other.

When I Grew Up, You Needed To Have Straight Hair. It's Symbolic Of Needing To Be Like Everyone Else, Needing To Look Like Everyone Else. And What That Meant Was Looking Like The Dominant Ruling Class In America.

Romanticizing The Act Of Writing Or Any Other Art Is Not Very Helpful To The Artist Or The Art. It's Much Better If One Simply Does.