Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.
People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.
Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work. ’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.
I like really stupid comedies.