Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They look at me like an old friend.
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I'm doing but just do it.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.
