How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
I never really did any disco dancing.
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.