It’s funny you know I get asked a lot of questions from emails and one question always seems to come up. People are like, “Russell-P, everything in your life is doing great. Your band is doing awesome, you have a great job, you are a good looking guy who has a lot of things going for you, but how come is it a lot of the stuff you write is always so damn depressing”?
You know, I don’t know but I think it’s because of this. As a writer you are supposed to represent the best and the worst of you at the same time, and I think if you do it in the right way and use it in the right way then you can take all your depressing stuff you want and get it out of you and put it down and have a place for it and then be a happy guy for most of the time. You can just kind of go on with the rest of your life, if your happy then I am not going to write, I am just going to go out and be happy. I only write if I sit down because I am depressed about something you know?
Someone else emailed me and asked me what I thought about love. I thought this was kind of a weird and vague question but I told them I would give it my best to answer it.
There is a funny thing about love. You see there are always two parts to it and a lot of times we as people only see one side of it at a time. One side of it is the really great amazing part of it. You know the kind when you just see the person and it makes you jump for joy on the inside, it makes you want to stand up and shout, "There she is, there is the girl that I love and want to give my all to. There is my princess the girl I want to spoil with my love. This is the girl that I want to worship and bow down too". That's the part of love that we love to be in. It's the part that great love songs are written about and the part that great poets have written about since the beginning of time.
But there is also another side to it. It's the more darker and sinister side that none of us like to think about. It's the side of love that shows it self only to one person in the relationship or as it tends to be the end of the relationship. It's the part of love when the person who is so madly and deeply in love with the other person realizes that that person no longer loves them the way they used to. It's the part that great love songs are written about and the part that great poets have written about since the beginning of time. Wait, isn't that what I said about the part above. Well yes it is and you want to know why? Because these two parts of love go hand in hand together. Either the person ends up realizing that they are no longer loved and move on to big and better things and grows from this and has more love to give to the next person. Are the person ends up moving on and then the person who dumps them realizes they made a mistake and they work feverishly to get said person back. Then either the person takes them or they don't. As we all know it's impossible to hold on to anybody and as dumb as it sounds if you set them free and they return then it was ment to be and if it dosent it was ment to be free. That's how love works in my opinion. Maybe I am right; maybe I am wrong who's to know.
What do you guys think?
