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I have this very strong opinion that when you’re young you feel things on such a intense and detailed level. There’s an attention to detail when you are like seventeen to twenty-two years old, and you’re longing, or you’re reaching and grasping but never holding … someones attention or someones love or someones dedication and you're just – you cant understand why you spend all day thinking about it. You notice everything – you notice candle ash on the cuff of the shirt and the button, and it’s everything that makes the mythology of those intense feelings that you have. And I’ve always tried to like – without being a completely unhinged adult – keep that level of detail and intensity when it comes to trying to describe a feeling.
