Ideology is the science of idiots.
I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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
When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.
In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.