I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around
You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn
I think everyone's hungry for the truth
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.
All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.
Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come. " And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?
I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.
I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle. . . in Los Angeles. . . so there ya go.