The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't want to ever minimize the danger of working in a mine.
The monsters are in your own head.
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
I've created such a monster.
We create monsters and then we can't control them.
Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
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