[AUDIO] Johnny Deppâs AMA Session â Question #5
On February 13, 2022, Johnny hosted his first âAsk Me Anythingâ session on his AMA channel at the Never Fear Truth Discord Server. The fourth question answered by Johnny was submitted by the user @QueenSanne who asked about his plans for the future in other arts such as music and writing.
This time Johnny talks about when he first started to play guitar, the beginning of his career as an actor, his respect for the arts, upcoming new Hollywood Vampires songs, his love for writing and the book he has been writing for years.
â - You really seem to be a multidimensional artist. I love your acting skills, I can't wait for the Vampires to come back to Germany and now I also fancy your painting skills. What will be the next dimension? Are you already writing some lines on a book? Or maybe some poems? Any other creative plans on your mind?â
â Thank you very much for your question! Itâs a great question.
I suppose, you know, after a certain amount of time you start to realize things that you allowed yourself in life and things that you⌠Thought it best to⌠Let go of or walk away from in life. And sometimes those things in life are very dear, I mean dear to the point of itâs truly a part of you, like the guitar, playing the guitar and playing music was my, well, is my life â was always my first love and I did it. I started playing it at 12 and taught myself how to play the thing I joined bands and ended up playing clubs at a very young age, you know. So for me there was â It was immediate; there was no question that the guitar was everything for me.
Then suddenly, couple years, well, a number of years later, I end up in Hollywood and the band breaks up and my friend asks me, âWhy donât you meet my agent?â So I did and she sent me to this audition and I got the gig somehow as an actor in some movie. And I didnât have much of an interest in it, you know, I always planned to go back to music and then made that film. Suddenly I found myself on this other road which was acting and that, once  I suppose, I was exposed to a lot of people, that is to say when people started to recognize me; it was a very odd feeling for me. And I think part of that was because I knew that I had achieved, I suppose, a certain amount of success in the acting field from, you know, the TV show or whatever. And, I just knew that I then had to make a choice to sort of say goodbye to music.
Yeah, you know, I didnât want to like⌠âHey! Iâm an actor! Iâm on this TV show!  Come! Come see my band play! or Come see me play!â I couldnât do that because I loved music far too much, I had far too much respect for it. So I did the acting thing and accidentally and kept on going still kind of trudging through the tundra there, of that arena. But at the moment because I did make the decision to unlock those barriers that I put upon myself, where I limited myself.
I donât think Iâll ever call myself an artist. I donât believe thatâs my place. I donât⌠I can certainly, and I do approach my work, my music, my whatever, as an artist but thatâs when youâre commencing on a blank page. Even if youâre an artist, at that moment, youâre an aspiring artist because you donât know what comes next. So I canât call myself an artist but, do I paint? Do I draw? Yeah. Do they mean something to me? Yeah, because they represent my interpretation of friends and energies and moments and the luck, the amazing moments that I have been gifted with in my life, you know.
So yeah Iâm painting a bunch and it feels good. Iâm writing and recording music. Thereâs stuff with the Vampires thatâs already sort of ready-to-go. Thereâs writing, you know, as you say, am I writing? I find I am constantly writing. I have always a notebook at my side and Iâm constantly writing. And whatever Iâm writing at the time that depends on whatever Iâve just laid down, you know, whatever Iâve just witnessed. I write all the time sometimes theyâre songs and sometimes theyâre slivers of a memory that will end up in this, what right now feels like a huge tome, which is a book Iâve been writing a book for about five or six years or so. Approaching that blank page is, truly one of the greatest challenges that one could face, you know. If you can keep a sense of humor, youâll get through it.
So yes, Iâm doing a whole bunch of stuff. Probably a bunch of stuff I shouldnât be doing, but themâs the brakes*.
> Johnny Deppâs AMA Audios:
- Question #1Â
-Â Question #2Â
- Question #3
- Question #4
* Following the audio, a message was also written on the post saying:
âWho's excited for how we can collab with Johnny's # đľď˝music this year?â
The Music Channel on Never Fear Truth Discord still has not opened yet, and will be another place to collaborate with Johnny, although more info will be revealed when the channel opens.
Up until now, the only message there is Johnnyâs audio voice answer for the 8° question of the second AMA session.
 * The audioâs achieve is titled âWhatsApp_Audio_2022-02-13_at_18.53.03.mpegâ, but was originally saved simply as âJD AMA Questionsâ
* When Johnny said âI have always a notebook at my side and Iâm constantly writingâ this is indeed a fact. Wherever he goes Johnny HAS ALWAYS a small notebook on the pocket of his jeans or shirt, as well dozens of pens.
* Â About writing a book, this is also a fact. According to Johnny, he started a book a couple of months before the end of his relationship with Amber Heard; and by August 16, 2018 he had written 300 PAGES, which according to him, he was still in the middle, and had at least more 300 pages to finish. [Letâs talk about this on the next post]
*Â Johnny finished the message with the expression âThemâs the brakesâ which also means âthat is the way things happenâ or âthatâs how it worksâ
* This is the longest audio sent by Johnny for the first 7 questions of the first session and the next 6 answers of the second session. We know that he hates speak in public, but when it comes to speak to friends he goes for hours⌠Also, he is probably one of the few people weâd love to receive a long voice message on WhatsApp.
* Just like all the audios of the first session, it seems that it was recorded while Johnny was in London. Also, they were originally recorded via WhatsApp and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software on his (or someoneâs) Apple MacBook computer before being posted on Discord, on mpeg format before being changed for mp3 formats after dozens of complains many couldnât listen.
