"A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry boo...












It ain't so easy writing about nothin
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"I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
"Everything comes down so pasteurizedeverything comes down 16 degreesthey say your amplifier is too loudturn your amplifier downare we high all alone o...
"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
"I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.
"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...
"And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I ...