David Berman

Pitchfork: Did you ever really try to kill yourself?

Berman: Yes.

Pitchfork: Is staying busy the key to happiness?

Berman: It can stave off unhappiness. Which may be the stopgap solution until you get some internal joy going inside you.

Pitchfork: Can you give us a lesson?

Berman: I would like to turn it into a mitzvah-- be useful, maybe to a reader in trouble. Somehow. Not about drugs, about how to be strong in the face of trouble. So I gotta draw up some lessons. But in the meantime, know this: Even if there is only a one in a million chance, you better respect that chance.