Arlo Parks

I think I've always felt, I've always felt a little bit uncomfortable in stillness.

I think sometimes I'm afraid of being stagnant and I'm afraid of being in one place for too long.

I think there's something really kind of voraciously curious about me as a person.

So I think I'm always kind of seeking and searching.

And I've always been like that as a child.

I think just having a complicated relationship with being present, looking to the future, looking to the past.

I think I've always been

you know, trying to keep hold of all of those things at once, which of course, you know, isn't possible.

But I think even as a writer and a creative person, I've always been somebody who likes to keep moving and learning.

I mean, it probably is a little bit anxious.

I think I always have this sense of, you know, it sounds a little bit morbid.

It's not mortality in a morbid way, but it's more that there's so much that I want to do and see in my life that I feel like I have to kind of constantly be...

moving towards that and absorbing as much as I can.

And also just being a creative person who wants to kind of sprawl in many different directions, write screenplays and get into other parts of songwriting also, I do feel like I need to be making progress in all those different directions at once.

Maybe also just being young and excited.

That's true.

That's very true.

I feel connected to the second part of what you said, because for me, the idea of, you know, aging and gaining wisdom is really inspiring to me.

I remember reading, I think it was Marina Abramovich's memoir, or maybe it was.

It's incredible.