One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.
Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.
True power is the power to empower others.
I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild west of music where labels don't exist anymore. And you go as far as you take yourself. And that's that American self-determination that is one of the reasons this country is so great and can survive on autopilot right now.
Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.
There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.
New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.