How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.