But the most important part of everything is to be happy.
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going. . . trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time. . . it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is. . . . if that's the last time I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.
I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
I'm an optimistic guy. It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better.