Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.
It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like. . . only a freak. A freak among other freaks
I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.
I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Everything means nothing to me
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.
Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc. ). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?
When I was 4 years old. . . I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.