“there are great moments in awards shows.  bruno mars sounded really good doing ‘valerie’ for amy winehouse. i don’t think anyone is bummed that adele is killing everything.  her voice was real and focused when i went thru and watched highlights from tonight. kanye and jay z are always murdering. beyonce is pregnant. yes this is awesome as shit, culturally speaking. but can i just ask, the reader, us, we…as non-rhetorically as possible; don’t we seem dumb?  didn’t MTV lose the fight against themselves?  Didn’t Rock’n’Roll STOP? Why are the lights so bright? isn’t our talent as artists enough?  Why do we try SO hard? Does a moonman mean what it did back then?  Should we feel pumped when we get one?  Should our mom’s cry?  I am not even thinking about it that hard. I will close my eyes in 90 seconds and have total peace…But, seriously.  Why are we waving around so much?  Why do we NEED this shit so bad?  Why don’t we just have MUSIC?  DO music?  soul?  I don’t know.  I don’t mean to criticize.  Anyone.  Actually.  Except for MTV.  You might have had a very large opportunity to stabilize your self as a global presesnce of culture and art about 15 years ago.  Sorry.  Im with my girls on this one.  Its becoming increasingly clear as I think about itmore and more, that the dollars, if they ARE apart of why you are doing something…they are apart of why you are doing something.  that’s fucked to me.  that’s the absence of spirit, glue, fabric of what makes us a person.  it distracts us from what we could be doing: WORK. on EARTH.  better say this: Forget what I say.  If you read this, you’ll probably say to yourself, who is this ass saying shit?  It doesn’t matter what i say. it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.” -Justin Vernon on music, the MTV VMAs, and life.