If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.
Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.
A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye. And something I always find beautiful about Jesse's work is that he finds beauty without any calculation. People say that his work is dark, but he never sees it as such. For him it's all almost about educating people to process why they feel disgust.
I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation. . . you need to have a walk away. . . a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.
Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!