I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.
Michael VenturaI require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.
Michael VenturaI never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.
Michael Ventura