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I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
