“Of course I still play the congas naked, I just close the windows,†Matthew McConaughey told GQ, referring to his 1999 arrest for playing loud congas nude in his home. He should really add that to the list of “aphorisms, bumper stickers, truths and rhymes†he collects in a laptop — 821 of them! Or so he showed GQ, even giving them a wonderful sampling:
McConaughey pauses to let the power of the words resonate. He is an avid collector of bits of wisdom like this. “I got 821 of them,†he says, nodding toward a slim laptop containing “aphorisms, bumper stickers, truths, and rhymes,†many of which he has come up with himself. Lately he has been writing bits of rap songs. Rollin’ through yellow lights on my skateboard, he speak-sings. Kiss the fire and walk away whistlin’.
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On the door [of his Airstream trailer], someone has welded McConaughey’s best-known aphorism, “Just keep livin’.†The line belongs to Wooderson, the long-graduated Lothario he played in 1993’s Dazed and Confused,and it’s become a motto for McConaughey, inspiring the names of both his foundation (J.K. Livin) and his clothing line (JKL), whose tagline is yet another McConaugheyism: “Find your frequency.â€
“That’s a goooood one,†he drawls. “You get that, don’t you? We all have a frequency, where things are clicking.†He closes his eyes, snapping his fingers like a Beat poet. “I can adapt better. I’m catching more green lights. You know what I mean?â€
We do.