I'm also from a very reserved family, and okay, you could make that emotionally fucked up family, where emotional stuff was never really discussed at all in a way everyone is really comfortable about, although it did kind of explode occasionally, and almost everyone I know comes from more or less messed up families with less than perfectly happy childhoods, so even reading what he wrote in his autobiography about his family felt in some ways profoundly alien to me...
Part of me simply can't believe that, if these incidents affected him so much, he'd stand up blithely and tell a whole hall full of strangers about them, and then go on and sing a song.
Somehow I am willing to believe it, maybe because he's who he is, maybe because he's got a family who really seems to love him a lot, and a partner who's been willing to put up with this and stick with him for 14+ years (which, frankly, is a hell of a lot more than can be said for my life), but on an intellectual level it's not something I can understand at all, either.
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Date: 2008-04-13 11:40 am (UTC)Part of me simply can't believe that, if these incidents affected him so much, he'd stand up blithely and tell a whole hall full of strangers about them, and then go on and sing a song.
Somehow I am willing to believe it, maybe because he's who he is, maybe because he's got a family who really seems to love him a lot, and a partner who's been willing to put up with this and stick with him for 14+ years (which, frankly, is a hell of a lot more than can be said for my life), but on an intellectual level it's not something I can understand at all, either.