Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!
I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be. " You realize that you need to like yourself.
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Enlightenment is the food that eats you.
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self effacement, surrender to the "others", disavowal of any personal dignity and freedom-on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.