Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

Richard Hell

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I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.

hate might thinking

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books. by Richard Hell

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

book thinking

There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.

kentucky cities loss

You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

relief focus real

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and... by Richard Hell

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

born ends stories

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find. by Richard Hell

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

hard play

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry... by Richard Hell

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

realizing poetry-is years

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

attitude appreciation art

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

vietnam media war

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

decided killing wanted

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

pistols perfect sex

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

media artist past

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.

smart spiritual thinking