Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.
I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.
I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.