My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
Mike MillsOver and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
Mike MillsTo me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
Mike MillsMy experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
Mike Mills