Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
I refuse to make uninspired music.
If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.
My choice is what I choose to be.
If you're gonna live, then live it up.
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.
Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.
When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.
I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.