I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
Music became a healer for me.
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding. . . . Cut it at any point, it is the same thing. . . all fat, without nerve.
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away. . . you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.