Remember How You Used To Be Able

By The 6th Grade I Stopped Doing Ordinary Things In Front Of People. It Had Been Ordinary To Sing, Kids Are Singing All The Time When They Are Little, But Then Something Happens. It's Not That We Stop Singing. I Still Sang. I Just Made Sure I Was Alone When I Did It. And I Made Sure I Never Did It Accidentally. That Thing We Call 'bursting Into Song.' I Believe This Happens To Most Of Us. We Are Still Singing, But Secretly And All Alone.

You Know That Great Car-stomach Feeling When You Fly Over A Hump? That Was My Whole Body.

When You Start To Think Of The Arts As Not This Thing That Is Going To Get You Somewhere In Terms Of Becoming An Artist Or Becoming Famous Or Whatever It Is That People Do, But Rather A Way Of Making Being In The World Not Just Bearable, But Fascinating, Then It Starts To Get Interesting Again.

If It Is Your Time, Love Will Track You Down Like A Cruise Missile.if You Say "no! I Don't Want It Right Now," That's When You'll Get It For Sure. Love Will Make A Way Out Of No Way. Love Is An Exploding Cigar Which We Willingly Smoke.

I Found Myself Compelled, Like This Weird, Shameful Compulsion To Draw Cute Animals.