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.

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

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.