Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.
You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct. " No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality. " Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.