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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.

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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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