You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.