Glen Phillips

And who am I? What am I? I am my community. I am the art I make. I am the thing I practice that brings me joy that I do for no pay. And it was kind of a revelation to me as someone you know, growing up in Santa Barbara as well, where there's a lot of people who you ask what they do and they tell you their job, which is also a reflection of what they are.

And the assumption is, oh, you managed to make your dream work as these unified front. And I think most people in the world, they do a thing to pay the rent and they have enough room left in their life that isn't spent clicking on a device or looking at a screen, a TV where I don't know.

And the assumption is, oh, you managed to make your dream work as these unified front. And I think most people in the world, they do a thing to pay the rent and they have enough room left in their life that isn't spent clicking on a device or looking at a screen, a TV where I don't know.

And the assumption is, oh, you managed to make your dream work as these unified front. And I think most people in the world, they do a thing to pay the rent and they have enough room left in their life that isn't spent clicking on a device or looking at a screen, a TV where I don't know.

I loved the combination of something we would call close to poverty with enough generalized security that they could be artists and dreamers and writers and clowns and yugglers and dancers. And that was who they truly knew they were. And they didn't feel that was in conflict.

I loved the combination of something we would call close to poverty with enough generalized security that they could be artists and dreamers and writers and clowns and yugglers and dancers. And that was who they truly knew they were. And they didn't feel that was in conflict.

I loved the combination of something we would call close to poverty with enough generalized security that they could be artists and dreamers and writers and clowns and yugglers and dancers. And that was who they truly knew they were. And they didn't feel that was in conflict.

Yeah, I could say I'm a professional driver. I drive my guitar from town to town and then I get to play it.

Yeah, I could say I'm a professional driver. I drive my guitar from town to town and then I get to play it.

Yeah, I could say I'm a professional driver. I drive my guitar from town to town and then I get to play it.

It was not one relationship in particular, but a, like a kind of a cast of generalized characters of. I think hurt people seeking hurt people and hurting each other while trying to figure out how to heal. And just watching that dynamic play out over and over in so many relationships. I think there's this almost a gear slotting of wounding sometimes. And then sometimes it doesn't.

It was not one relationship in particular, but a, like a kind of a cast of generalized characters of. I think hurt people seeking hurt people and hurting each other while trying to figure out how to heal. And just watching that dynamic play out over and over in so many relationships. I think there's this almost a gear slotting of wounding sometimes. And then sometimes it doesn't.

It was not one relationship in particular, but a, like a kind of a cast of generalized characters of. I think hurt people seeking hurt people and hurting each other while trying to figure out how to heal. And just watching that dynamic play out over and over in so many relationships. I think there's this almost a gear slotting of wounding sometimes. And then sometimes it doesn't.

it just perfects your grand thing and you're because everyone's a little damaged or most people everyone's at least a little damaged and and that idea crowing for repair i don't even know that that phrase came out of nowhere i mean crowing's probably out of peter pan the people who are but it's such a profound crowd of their damage such a profound phrase though i mean at one

it just perfects your grand thing and you're because everyone's a little damaged or most people everyone's at least a little damaged and and that idea crowing for repair i don't even know that that phrase came out of nowhere i mean crowing's probably out of peter pan the people who are but it's such a profound crowd of their damage such a profound phrase though i mean at one

it just perfects your grand thing and you're because everyone's a little damaged or most people everyone's at least a little damaged and and that idea crowing for repair i don't even know that that phrase came out of nowhere i mean crowing's probably out of peter pan the people who are but it's such a profound crowd of their damage such a profound phrase though i mean at one

We often start by puppeting ourselves and the people we love into reenacting the hardest injuries we suffered and seeing if anything changes and very often doing that in a way which makes it the other person's responsibility to do it right, even though they don't know they're being puppeteered, right? So they fail. So then you do it again and again. And I mean, it's amazing.

We often start by puppeting ourselves and the people we love into reenacting the hardest injuries we suffered and seeing if anything changes and very often doing that in a way which makes it the other person's responsibility to do it right, even though they don't know they're being puppeteered, right? So they fail. So then you do it again and again. And I mean, it's amazing.

We often start by puppeting ourselves and the people we love into reenacting the hardest injuries we suffered and seeing if anything changes and very often doing that in a way which makes it the other person's responsibility to do it right, even though they don't know they're being puppeteered, right? So they fail. So then you do it again and again. And I mean, it's amazing.

I don't think man is a rational beast. I think man is a rationalizing beast. And we're very narrative. We think that we are... I don't know. We think we're rational players and it's astonishing how often we aren't.