I Think A Lot Of

I Am A New Yorker, One; I'm An Artist, Two; I'm A Woman, Three.

I Kind Of Didn't Believe The Doctors When They Came Over And They Said You're Not Going To Be Able To Walk Again. I'm Sorry To Tell You This. I Thought Who Is This Guy? I Just Was So Impatient With The Whole Thing. I Knew I Was Going To Walk Again. I Knew That I Was Going To Do That.

. . . I Wrote A Letter To Thomas Pynchon Asking, Can I Have Your Permission To Try To Make An [adaptation] Of Your Book? And I Had No Idea That He Would Answer Me, Because He's Pretty Elusive. But He Did Send A Letter Back That Said, Yes, You Can Do That - As Long As The Only Instrument In The Opera Is A Banjo. I Thought, That's An Interesting Way Of Saying No.

If I'm Confused, I Just Spend Some Time Looking At The Sky And Falling Into It. It's Not A Meditation That Anyone Taught Me, It's Something I've Done My Whole Life, And Liked Doing, And It Made Me Feel Like Nothing.

That's Really A Very Different Experience: You Don't Have To Look To Be Understood. You're Already Understood.