If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.

It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.