In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.
I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.