You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.
At the end of the day, my life isnt about other peoples work. Ive got to stop giving stuff away. Ive got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. Ive got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist and talk about one thing.
Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
There's a lot of people that don't understand liberalism, there are a lot of people that I think, by definition, still need to be informed and educated that it isn't the soft, loving, compassionate stuff that it's portrayed to be. Trump speaks for himself. Who Trump is and what he's doing is not a mystery to anybody. It's the exact opposite of a mystery. It's in your face.
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
Dreams like podcast. Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff.
Never try to get your kid to eat anything she doesn't already want to eat. Just eat interesting stuff in front of her while completely ignoring her. Never, ever suggest "try it. " Never say those dreaded words "try it, it's good. " Or worse, "It's good for you. " That'll poison the well.
You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
I like to hide behind my intellect. But the truth is, unless all of us start getting honest about what the reality is, things aren't going to change. If we all keep pretending that we know stuff and if everyone else would do what we knew and everything would be a better place, then nothing is going to change.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.
When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.
I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.