If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.
I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.