I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.
You should not separate your life from what you do.
I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.
My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.
I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.
I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
I love the levels, the depth, that the character has. He is the only member of the Justice League who cannot take off his costume. He is Cyborg 24/7.
You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.
I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
There's no separation anymore between who I am and what I create.
Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.
Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.
I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
