Mirror

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The goal is ecstacy

There are stories about people walking out of early shows; now you're playing sold-out venues. Does it feel like a vindication?

MG: It feels great. I don't know about a vindication because there is no such thing. It just is what is. You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

“Artists who go out on a limb, artists that go beyond the point of no return and artists who push things to the very limits of good taste and respectability, I have always found the most heroic."

Later, Harold Ramis

Life is tragedy and comedy all at once and only a fool would try to separate them.

Was that hard? The idea that you put so much time and energy into something that not many people even read?

I don’t think art is about expression. I don’t think that’s its primary motive. The primary motivation is communion with your fellow human beings. So it’s very frustrating to make something and nobody notices it. If you put on a play and nobody comes to it, did you really put on a play? But you just keep going. You remind yourself that people have been doing this as long as there have been people. And your frustrations and disappointments are nothing new. And you go back to the wheel.

Fenriz on selling out

Q: How many people have offered you lots of money to play live? And you always turn it down.
A: I could be a rich bitch if I said yes to all these things.
Q: Why don't you?
A: Because Darkthrone is my life's work. And it will be less if I do something I don't want to.