So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.