Sean Patrick Cooper

There’s part of me that wants to get attention and respect. It doesn’t really make very much difference to me. Because I learned in my 20’s that it just doesn’t change anything. And that whatever you get paid attention for is never the stuff that you think is important about yourself anyway. So a lot of my problems right now is that I don’t really have a brass ring. And I’m kind of open to suggestions as to what one chases. There are real abstract ideas about, you know, what art can be, the redemptive quality of art, and you know, kindness to animals. All the cliches that we can invoke. But …the people who most interest me now are the people who are old and who have sort of been through a midlife criss. They tend to get weird, because the normal incentives for 

getting out of bed don’t tend to apply anymore. I have not found any satisfactory new ones. But I’m also not getting ready to jump off a building or anything.”

From an interview w/ Charlie Rose in 97’.