What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.
I take all of my music seriously and personally.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
I need to broaden my horizons.
For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.
I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?