I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .
I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.
So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.