The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.