Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.
You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.
Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.
Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.
Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.