Being scared doesn’t have to inhibit me. Instead, acknowledging my fear and deciding to use it, and then destroy it, is empowering. Jumping in head-first forces me to come up with a solution. It doesn’t have to be the best solution, but it will be at least a stepping-stone.
The mysterious and the unknown become increasingly valuable and important to retain our humanity so that we don’t turn into robots. That’s what art is to me — a manifestation of the human spirit — and flow state is the peak of the human spirit.
What if there were no secrets?
How can just a simple pencil line on a paper question all this ? I believe that drawing is the architecture of the mind. By learning to make “imperfect” shapes, I was learning to become imperfect. I was learning to be human.
Auditioning, they say, is the actor’s real job. Performing is the grand prize, it’s what you get to do when you’re lucky, it’s the crème de la crème, and it may not happen often.
What if no one raised their own child?
Sometimes I ask myself if I’m always working, or never. Is meeting strangers considered work? If so, I’ve largely eclipsed the 35 hour work week.
I think my brain went berserk with the potential of the guitar. I remember grabbing a carrot peeler during an early recording session and using it on my guitar.
It’s a blind first stumble down a slippery slope — one that weakens my sense of direction, makes me send ‘lol’ instead of actually laughing, replaces essential parts of life and human connection simply because it can. I am scared that empathy will one day appear inconvenient, or optional.
The pride I feel for ‘Miles Ahead’ is immeasurable. It’s big and broad. It reaches all parts of me. My director pushed me, leaned on me, challenged me, relied on me to be better. He raised my game as a producer. But as a champion and a conqueror of my fear and anxiety? That was all me.