Will Sheff on reality

Will Sheff of Okkervil River, from an interview with The Believer:

[A] couple months ago I tripped and I smashed my face up and I really fucked up my glasses and I haven't been able to close them since. And I caught my eye and smashed my lip up and I got this deep-tissue bruise. And it was the first time I felt a very severe degree of pain out of nowhere, really suddenly--this is long after I wrote "For Real"... But there was really no mistaking it. That was a very real sensation. You have these moments where you're like--Do I like this girl? Do I love this girl? Or do I just like her? Do I want a ham sandwich or do I want a turkey sandwich? Are my political beliefs just somebody else's beliefs that I've simply adopted or are they what I really think? But when your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have that kind of question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that’s what's going to unmake us all--smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.