I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.
“I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.”
The World Motivation
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.
“I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.”
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.
No one would hang out with me if I didn't have music to make.
When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.
Me and Kurt Cobain were both listening to a bunch of Lead Belly and diggin' it. We thought, 'Let's do an EP of all Lead Belly songs.' We did a couple, and both of us were like, 'Nah, this is a bad concept.' We set it aside.
When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that store guard was when I got thrown in jail again - this time for not paying court fees. The guy happened to be in jail, too, right next to me. That's what Eastern Washington is like - you never get too far away from anybody.
I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them. It's a sickness on some level. It's a compulsion.
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in the past, notably with the 850-page Underworld (1997), and his story has been America.
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.