The Beauty Of Life Is In Small

I Like That Cartoons Are Now Not Only Animated Drawings, They Are A Way Of Doing Something: 'that Song Sounds Very Cartoony', Or 'he Has A Cartoon Face'. Like The Word 'poetic', Which Usually Means Something Different Than A Poem. But Most Of All Cartoons Are Comforting, That's The Real Reason I Need Them.

Specific Music Starts Feeding My Imagination And Gives Me A Landscape That Corresponds Somehow, In Some Abstract Way, To The World I'm Just Starting To Imagine.

I Love John Ashbery. He's The - Really The Poet Laureate Of English Language Poetry, Whether He's Given That Or Not, He Is To Me.

Consequently, I Get Inspiration From All Over The Place. But It's Not Like A Calculated Thing On My Part, Or A Way That I See Myself, You Know? I'm Just Interested In Things That Move Me, And I Don't Care Where They Come From. In Fact, I'm Interested If They Come From A Place I Wouldn't Expect, Or Would Seem Foreign To Me On Some Level.

The Filmmaker Amos Poe Was A Huge Inspiration For Me By Making Guerrilla-style Punk Films On The Streets Of New York And - Well, It's Just A Lot Of Painters And Artists And Filmmakers All Within That Scene, And It's Very, Very Important To Me.