You have to build an immunity toward assholes. If you can dish out bad-assness, you have to be able to take shit for it. I didn’t make up the rules, this is just the way it is. You do have friends. You have friends in every weirdo album you fall in love with. In every book or zine or website you come across that you relate to. It is gonna feel lonely. It is gonna be hard. Some us didn’t chose to live this way, it chose us.