I Mean, I Think A Healthy Country

The Individuals Inside Are Frequently Fighting That Their Individual Voices Be Heard, While The Walls Of The Place, Which Are The Mask, And The Perception, Are Reluctant To Give Over To The Voices Of The Individuals. Those In The Margins Are Always Trying To Get To The Center, And Those At The Center, Frequently In The Name Of Tradition, Are Trying To Keep The Margins At A Distance. Part Of The Identity Of A Place Is The Tension Between Those In The Margins, And Those In The Center, And They All Live Behind The Walls Which Wear The Tradition.

Do You Want To Be An Artist So That The Whole World Will Look At You, Or Do You Want To Be An Artist Because You Would Like To Use Your Ability To Attract Attention, To Have The World See Itself Through You Differently?

Each Person Has A Literature Inside Them.

Some People Study A Text Very Deeply. The People Are My Text. I Study Their Words And What Their Words Sound Like, Over And Over Again. When I Was A Kid, My Grandfather Said That "if You Say A Word Often Enough, It Becomes You." Thinking Of That Later In Life Gave Me This Idea That I Could Try To Become America By Learning The Words Of People From Many Aspects Of The Country. It Doesn't Matter How Educated They Are. By Living In The World And Living Their Experiences, They Bring Extraordinary Truths. I Try To Do Those Truths Justice.

You Are An Explorer. You Understand That Every Time You Go Into The Studio, You Are After Something That Does Not Yet Exist.