So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
