Reggie Watts

And so for me, it's, it's like fighting for fun through simplicity and remembering like, yeah, this is the adventure.

Like, like, like I want to preserve that.

So preserving the fun and chasing the fun and doing it for the love of what you're doing, it's all that really matters.

And again, from there, that's kind of like being in service of love and then coherence follows from that.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, because, I mean, when I started, I mean, I guess technically I've always been doing art, but when I guess I started doing it professionally, you know, I would have been like, what, 18, 19 or something like that.

And, you know, again, it's really like all I did was like I wanted to be a part of things.

And so part of it was like, man, someday I hope to get to play with that bass player, you know.

And then like two years later, there's like an ad in the local rag, like this band seeks keyboardist.

And I'm like, well, that's crazy.

That's the band with that bass player.

And then I try out for it and then I get the thing.

I'm like, oh fuck, I'm doing this thing.

You know, so a lot of it is like imagining yourself where you want to be.

And, and again, community is kind of the thing.

Cause like, you know, I lived with people, I lived with like a collective of all kinds of artists and we helped each other through hard times.

And if, you know, you're,

down on rent or whatever.

Luckily I had like parents that would be helpful now and then, and, you know, or my friends would help me out or, you know, um, so it's really about community and, um, and then that community is built on everyone's unified passion for having a blast and doing dumb ass, cool shit or bad ass shit or however you want to view it.

And I think that that's the thing that saves you.

So in the beginning, like if you're just starting out and you're like, I have to work this fucking job and blah, blah, blah.