"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
"I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring."
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Source: Sean Lennon speaks. Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.
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