Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.
I believe people from the film industry, musicians, dancers, artists and writers are all internally connected. The form of expression externally may vary, but we are connected internally.
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
If I wasn't making music I'd still be listening to it and talking about it. That's why I'm able to chill with Denzel Curry and then Jeff Tweedy, because the thing that's linking us is music.
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.
