"I think the interveiw is the new art form. I think the self-interview is the essence
of creativity. Asking yourself questions and trying to find answers. The writer is
just answering a series of unuttered questions. Its similar to answering questions
on a witness stand. Its that strange area where you try and pin down something
that happened in the past and try honestly to remember what you were trying
to do. It's a crucial mental exercise. An interveiw will often give you a chance to
confront your mind with questions, which to me is what art is all about. An
interview also gives you the chance to try and eliminate all of those space
fillers...you should try to be explicit, accurate, to the point...no bullshit. The
interveiw form has antecedents in the confession box, debating and
cross-examination. Once you say something, you cant really retract it. Its too
late. Its a very existential moment. I;m kind of hooked to the game of art and
literature; my heroes are artists and writers. I always wanted to write, but I
always figured it'd be no good unless somehow the hand just took the pen and
started moving without me really having anything to do with it. Like automatic
writing. But it just never happened. I wrote a few poems, of course. I think
around the fifth or sixth grade I wrote a poem called "The Pony Express." That
was the first I can remember. It was one of those balladtype poems. I never
could get it together though. "Horse Lattitudes" I wrote when I was in high
school. I kept alot of notebooks through high school and college, and then when
I left school, for some dumb reason-maybe it was wise-I threw them all
away....I wrote in those books night after night. But maybe if I'd never thrown
them away, I'd never have written anything original-because they were mainly
accumulations of things that I'd read or heard, like quotes from books. I think I'd
never gotten rid of them if I'd never been free. Listen, real poetry doesn't say
anything, it just ticks off the possibilties. Opens all doors. You can walk through
any one that suits you. ...and that's why poetry appeals to me so much-because
it's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and
combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust but poetry and
songs. No one can remember an entire novel. No one can describe a film, a
piece of sculpture, a painting, but so long as there are human beings, songs and
poetry can continue. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, its to deliver people
from the limited ways in which they see and feel." - James Douglas Morrison, Los Angeles, 1969-71
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