Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Easy is not a option. . No days off. . Never Quit. . Be Fearless. . Talent you have Naturally. . Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work
Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.
Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.
I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.
What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.
Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.