I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
I've always been on the outside of all that political stuff so I just sort of watch it and I'm appalled and I think people should be screaming about a lot of things right now and they're not. They're just letting everything happen. I don't know. At some point the wheels are going to come off and we're going to have a real problem. The people are going to get angry and it's going to be too late.
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous. ' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn. ' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?