I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.
I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.