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"I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school."

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"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Artist

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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Desire

"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."

Thought

"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."

Ambition

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

Art

"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

Belief

"It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was."

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"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."

Awareness

"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it."

Philosophy