So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
. . . many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option-they can tell their story directly to an interested market.
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.