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Jul 18, 2025, 06:28AM

I’m Getting Religious

A 2020 GQ UK interview with musician Tommy Lee vs. a 2020 Pace Gallery interview with artist Sam Gilliam.

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Sam Gilliam: The idea of pyramids turned into blocks, and the blocks are simply a small sample that changes because they are made to rotate.

Tommy Lee: Yeah, maybe. You just cruise because, especially out here in California, if you're riding you want to chill out.

Gilliam: So why not make it fun?

Lee: My face often hurts from laughing so much from all the fun we have.

Gilliam: I’m more didactic: red, yellow, blue, black, and white.

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Lee: How is it even possible?

Gilliam: You are who you are, or you become what you aspire to become.

Lee: You know, what's really good in your life, what's not so good, what could be better.

Gilliam: If you went out on a Friday night, you didn’t come back until Monday morning—there are songs about that, too.

Lee: That's a really good sign.

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Gilliam: Read books backward.

Lee: Well, at least they can watch the movie.

Gilliam: One becomes many—I’m getting religious.

Lee: I'm like, how am I still alive?

Gilliam: Through existence, perseverance, and having a point of view.

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