Apparently thereโs this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, itโs totally shocked to still be aliveโso it sings this really beautiful song.
Gus Van SantI was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.
Gus Van Sant