I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like. . . only a freak. A freak among other freaks
I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.
I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Everything means nothing to me
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.
I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is.
I started out with machine code and assembly language.
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.