I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
I was a complete outsider in high school.
When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection -- a true friendship -- and the connection touches the soul completely.
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.
If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.
You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought