Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn’t playing, and music – and didn’t have that outlet – those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn’t have that channel to get those energies out. I’m a much healthier person when I play music.
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with ‘hate.’
Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don’t always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.