I Don't Know (Definitions)

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 I've spent many years trying to define it and call me this and that. And the truthful answer is, I don't know. These are the things that I'm moved to do. I'm good at doing X and Y and I know that I'm not great in these areas, so this is where I'm focusing my energy. That's come in part of these creations.

I made cereal. Okay. And then there's clothing. Okay, all right well, I make music and I write, okay, cool. But then I make this, now I'm building this and making a cologne, and then writing this book. At some point the box for which you've created for yourself is too big to contain, so then you have to create a new box.

At some point. It's to hell with the boxes. Who cares? I don't care. And the truth is, I don't have enough time to care. The reality is, I don't know, and it's kind of fun to not know. It's more exciting to not know.

Maybe when I first started, which I'm sure there was a bit of an insecurity because I was trying to define something, that it was hard for me to put it on because it would be definitive. But that even clearly illustrates that clearly I wasn't looking to be defined. I wanted to know from my own experience and in allowing that journey to take me where it's taken me has resulted in an understanding, a complete understanding that, I don't know. That's one thing that I'm sure of.

I don't know. I could tell you more about what I don't know than what I do know, and I don't know what this is, and it doesn't matter to me. It no longer matters to me to define it. And in that has come a wonderful harmony where  Where these children, if you may, man they're incredible and they inspire me.

Making the cologne has inspired me greatly. A wool sweater, a really great quality lavender sweater, inspires me. Corduroy pants, I love corduroy and actually wearing these things. I went to a store in New York that was selling cereal and such, and I bought a box. This was about five years ago.

And I grabbed the box and I sat on a bench and I ate it, and I was blown away. It actually tastes good because years before that I was not ready to admit that it was good because I was so fearful of being the guy who was touting something for which he didn't believe in. I needed to make sure, I needed to be sure.

And it's ironic today because most of the stores that carry cereal and such today buy it by the pound, and they've bought it by the pound for six years now. No packaging included. They're not coming because I'm marketing it. I don't do marketing. They're not coming because I tell them to go there. I don't, the product itself is what is what speaks for itself. So the quality of the sweater, the quality of the fragrance, the quality of the music. I go and I, I I saw last week, like there was data on a song that I wrote five years ago.

No one listened to that album when it came out, but I loved it. I think it's great. I think the things that flow through me, the those pure elements are the rarest jewels of the world, and I saw all of a sudden there was a spike in another country for the song. Now how they got to it, why: it's irrelevant to me, I don't know.

But the thing I do realize is I knew it was good when I made it and it didn't matter if anyone heard it, then. I know if it's coming through me. I know, if there's zero interference, it's it. Now, if someone enjoys it today, that's fine. If they enjoy it 10 years, that's fine. But I know in the creation, in the manifestation of that, that it is absolutely pure, and that is the only thing that matters. Because as long as I defer or abandon or even in conflict with the things that come through me, whether it be products, clothing, anything, then I, it is a failure to see reality. It is a failure to see that. If I wanna distance myself from the product, not wear it, use it, it is a reflection of the conflict within myself. And if I sell that to others, then it's untrue because I myself am not even connected to the things that come from me and that is something that is that you could see in any artist today, not even an artist and human beings themselves, whether in relationship with their children, their family, their work, themselves, they're far from themselves.

For a given artist, they would seek to arrive at the understanding that the things that come through them are the clearest, most direct answers of what's in them then they can get from anywhere else. Any therapist, any friend, anybody. Because it's coming from them directly.

And that there's nothing to change about the thing itself. It is how they see things that, that needs readjustment and needs clarity or clarification rather.