[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.
Scott McClanahanWith my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.
Scott McClanahanThere's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.
Scott McClanahanThe whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?
Scott McClanahanFashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.
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