A generational narrative suggests one needs to 'stay sick' or embrace a troubled persona for creative genius.

“But all of this [ __ ] is hard because I'm coming at it with generations of a story that says you need to stay sick. Like when you hear Kanye say bipolar is my superpower. Like there's a part of me that's like of course. And I I like my artist [ __ ] up. The more [ __ ] up you are, that's true genius. That's, you know, and I go, you know, I have friends close to me that go, as someone who's as creative as you, as so you're so like boring and small thinking when you just buy into those things.”