Chuck Klosterman

A real artist is in some ways myopic, I think, in that they are thinking about how can I express this thing regardless of how it is consumed?

I think also like a lot of times when you specifically hear an artist talking how disinterested they are in response to their work, that's often a sign that that can't be the case, kind of, you know, because if they're really disinterested, it wouldn't even occur to them to bring it up as something they don't worry about.

Like that Thelodius Monk quote, it's like, the true genius is the person who is most himself.

And that is what I'm trying, like with this book, that's what I'm trying to do.

Like I'm trying to be like, I need to take the way I think and feel about this and transfer it to the page as closely as possible.

I have to somehow wall off this idea of how it will be received.

And yet I'm doing it in public.

Okay, here's the thing.

I was supposed to be the first person.

You were late.

I was late.

I got stuck on the bridge.

And to his credit.

I think you were kind of stoned also, maybe.

No, I don't think so.

I don't think I would.

I'm in public.

You know, it's like that would be a complete disgrace.

I would never possibly do that.

That's an insane accusation.