I Was A Cocky Kid, And I

Doing Things Like Playing Music, Something That's So Natural And Basic To Human Function, Running Around In Nature, Eating Delicious Food. These Things Are Intrinsic In Basic, Primordial To Human Beings, So That's Sort Of A Way To Return To A Blank Canvas, Allowing My True Personality To Return.

I Went To A School That Was Founded On A Lot Of Very Radical Ideals Of How Education Should Be Changed. But What's Happening To Schools Like That Sort Of All Over The Country Is In Economic Pressure They're Becoming More And More Preparatory Because That's What People Will Really Pay The Money For Private Schooling For Now.

We’re Not Living In An Age Of No Hope. We Are Living In The Age Of Choice, Which Is Much Scarier. It Means That What We Do Every Day Matters, Which Is Always A Bummer For Humans. But It’s A Great Thing And It’s Inspirational And We Need To Remember That. We Have A Long Way To Go And Not A Long Time To Get There.

The Most Important Part Of My Practice As An Artist Has Been Remembering To Stay Humble. There Is So Much Hurt, So Much Sorrow, So Much Pain In The World, And I Think When You're Born And Bred Into Privilege, It's Easier To Have A Closed Perspective On Things. But There's This Opportunity That's Open To All Of Us To Let Empathy Connect Us Back To One Another.

New Jersey Was Actually A Very Cold Place. There Was Such An Intense Concentration Of Wealth, And Such A Low Concentration Of Any Actual Human Happiness. A Lot Of People Seem To Be Similar To The Kid In School, Which Is Doing A Lot Of Things With No Direct Consequence To Their Joy, Or Their Lives.