That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
I am just a guy who plays drums.
I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.