Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
I was incredibly different as a child from everybody else. But really, I was just who I was. I was born that way.
It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.
ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them.
My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever even brought it up. I imagine just looking at me, they were like "Not an army officer. "
One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.
My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you hear people say, "I was unhappy the whole time," that sounds ridiculous. I think this is a theme among people who seek fame, not just musicians. There are a lot of bitter, disappointed people.
Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
Video game engines can handle the kind of complexity and realism you can't put into a movie - yet. But games are getting better and better - I imagine a day where you won't be able to tell a game from a movie, with great A. I. animation and photoreal, interactive environments, etc.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.