If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown
If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Shipp or I should have Han Bennink on drums or this song should be playing for the next 20 minutes in my head, not a silly little pop song. It's constant.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.