Marc Maron

I knew that I wanted to be a creative person.

I was and am a creative person.

And when I was younger, I remember I was in 10th grade.

I was in an English class.

And we were studying poetry and the teacher asked us to write a poem.

And I wrote this very weird, heartfelt, sad poem about, you know, not knowing how to talk to girls, not being a jock, not, you know, having any experience with relationship.

It was just a very it was too much.

And I remember reading it, and the class was just mortified.

And the teacher was like, oh, well, okay, Mark, thank you.

That was very interesting.

I just put too much of my heart out there, and it alienated me more.

But I spoke in honesty in that moment, and the feeling of doing that was horrendous.

So I continued to do it my entire life.

And when I got into college, look, I tried to pursue poetry.

I did photography.

I did acting.

I was always trying to put myself out there in an attempt to become sort of a whole person.

So if I thought if I could be seen and I could show myself that somehow or another I would come together.

And that's why I chose comedy for some reason.

It was because I could put myself out there.