The Interview: Michael Novak
August 2026
What we’re talking about is that, if you do everything heavy and weighted, your audience will get bored. You’ll probably get bored too, as an artist. But if you start changing your dynamics and creating where you’re light, where you’re heavy and where you can suspend before you go, that’s where the poetry really starts to happen.
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