I spent (not kidding) two hours searching for this quote:
“I find that, for me, the work is safe place to put all the stuff you don’t want to put in your real life. I don’t want to be a crazy, manic asshole. I don’t want to have an affair. I don’t want to have a fucking gunfight. BUT!
“There’s a part of your brain that wants to experience everything, so work’s a safe place to explore it all. Both in the writing and in the performing.
“I get to write about an affair. I get to have the guilt and the feeling of that without having to fuck up my life. Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.”
-Lin Manuel Miranda, interviewed in GQ
Anyways, just wanted to post it for all the three people who will see this so I don’t forget, and you don’t either. Go fucking nuts… in your art. Take all that bad shit and put it in the art, leave the rest for what you want to bring home to yourself, your parents, your friends, your cat, or that spider that lives rent free in the corner of your hallway closet.
