Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.
I didn't have a phone there for about 10 years.
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.
In 2004, when I started recording my first CD, I was coming right out of yeshiva. So I had spent two years completely immersed in the Hasidic culture, disconnected completely from the secular world - movies, music, people.
I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.
