The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.
What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
I am frightened of nothing. " "Nothing?" "Nothing. " "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it. " "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.
If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.