As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life … - Mike Mills

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But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Mike Mills

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

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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.

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The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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