The piano is not firewood -- yet.
I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level. . Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks. . . . My father. . . removed from Kentucky to. . . Indiana, in my eighth year. . . . It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. . . . Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher. . . but that was all.
Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people