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Erik: What have you found most gratifying about being an uncle?
Conrad: I guess the number one most gratifying thing is that I'm able to hang out with some
super cute very young kids, because they're just so happy and innocent. All the normal
reasons I think anybody who has small kids in their family and in their lives, all the
reasons that they would say the same thing, but to see things through a kid's eyes is
really eye-opening. For me, I love it when I'm able to give my nephews—I have a new
one—and my nieces musical instruments, or something musical. And anything really creative,
and obviously young kids are so creative and they're just dying to create, dying to color,
dying to play music. I love seeing that come out of them. It makes you realize also that
it's almost a way of unblocking writer's block. You know, you sit there whether I'm writing
something, whether I'm trying to write a drum beat or whether I'm trying to come up with
a piece of music. If—I'm one of those people where I have to have it fully formed in my
head before I can commit it to paper, which is not a terribly good way to go about things.
Really, you should get things down and edit and revise from there, but I'm of those people
that I need to—This isn't perfect, I'm not even gonna type it into this little Word document
that no one will see. Why do I do that? And I look at my nieces when they're coloring
in or when they're writing, or when they're drawing, they don't think about that. It comes
out. And look at this wonderful stuff. I actually thought about that recently watching them.
And I thought there's no reason I shouldn't just be allowing myself to be more creative.