I certainly do attempt to live according to spiritual principles. That's always the foundation of each and every day. I have experienced some things in my life that just force me to believe in some sort of power. A creative . . . creative power source; however you want to phrase it. I certainly have experienced that presence. And I have experienced what I consider the basic, what we would call love and concern.
Hubert Selby, Jr.But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--
Hubert Selby, Jr.I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.
Hubert Selby, Jr.I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.
Hubert Selby, Jr.