“I wanna simplify so far back to the point where I see the buffalo, and I grab the piece of charcoal and I go to the cave. And I sketch the buffalo on the cave wall. That’s the highest art. Ya know, the caveman certainly wasn’t trying to fuckin’ impress the girl down the street that worked in a record store with his goddamn caveman drawing. People couldn’t understand how beautiful that buffalo was, and something compelled him to go to that wall and draw a buffalo on the wall because he dreamt of the buffalo. His relationship was still directly with God, not even with the cave wall or the charcoal. He’s like, ‘I see buffalo. I recreate buffalo.’ That’s all it is. I want to get there […] I say, ‘Bring it on.’ Go and get the whole bucket of shit and throw it at me, ‘cause I see the cave clearer every day.’”
Ryan Adams (Paste Magazine, Dec 2003)
(Source: pastemagazine.com)
