(Photo By Melanie Weiner)

In the July 1998 edition of REQUEST Sean is featured in a short article and interview in the "Coast to Coast-New York City" section.

Sean tells the magazine that when Beastie Boy Mike Diamond first heard the track, "Two Fine Lovers" from his LP "Into the Sun" - "His face was just like," Sean mimicks Diamond's blank expression. "Now it's his favorite song on the record."

Sean talks about his positive attitude: "I made a choice in my life to be an optimistic, positive person. Because, to be honest, I was your average pseudointellectual, negative, cynical teenager who thought they know everything and hated the world and hated society and hated everything and thought we were all going to die. That's really how I felt for a long time, until this whole revolutionary Buddhist thing happened to me in high school."

This "revolutionary Buddhist thing" happened after Sean had gotten himself depressed after reading Descartes' fourth discourse. Sean: "I freaked out because I'd never considered that reality might not be what we perceive it to be."

"Buddhism says...words themselves and logic itself is not the truth. There's no truth in words, they're artificial constructions that don't define anything, because the world isn't to be defined, it's more to be experienced."

Speaking of his parents, John and Yoko, Sean said, "My mom and dad said, 'give peace a chance,' and 15, 20 years later, at the Israeli peace talks, Yassar Arafat said, 'Give peace a chance.' What my mom and dad did went way beyond the 60's or 70's or the hippie movement or America or the West. It affected the entire world. And my dad wasn't the most optimistic person, either. But he made the choice to be positive and say, 'Give peace a chance' versus 'Let's (word obscured by graphic on page) the Republicans' or something. That's how I want to be,too."

The article is by Evelyn McDonnell

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