I Want To Thank Gus Van Sant

I'm So In Love With The United States. Not As A Patriot. I'm In Love With America Like It's My First Girlfriend. The Geography, The People, The Smell, The Touch, The Taste, The Gas Stations. I'm Madly In Love With America.

I Heard My Mother Talking Badly Of Me To People Who Were Talking Badly Of Me In Her Salon. That's Probably The Thing That I'm Most Sensitive Of In All My Friendships And My Relationships. I Just... I Just Can't Take That. I'm Comfortable With Enemies, But I Can't Take It From Friends.

I Constantly Try To Reinvent My Sensibilities And My Ideas. I Enjoy Some Of The Satisfaction That I Get When I Feel Good About What I've Done. But The Process Is Quite Lonely And Quite Painful.

I Do Not Want My New Works To Be Generated In A Market Or Audience Of Any Kind.

My Parents Took An Interest In Nothing, At Home No Books, No Records. My Mother And My Father Are The Emblem Of Indifference, Dryness And Bad Taste. My Father Is Also Terribly Stingy, In Life As Well As In Feelings: I Have Never Seen Him Filling Up The Bathtub.