Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.