...If they have to be mad at anyone alive, I'd prefer it be at me.

[It's not said in any sort of self-deprecating way; it's just how things are.]

It doesn't trouble me, and if they need to be angry in order to recover personally, then that's fine. It isn't as though I have a lot to do with most of the people who would do that, anyway.

[...He isn't sure if he came out of the hotel well-adjusted or just fucked up in different directions, honestly, but that is apparently the stance we're taking today.]