One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone. . . truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.
Sometimes you just have to say, “. . . I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens. ” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works
Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.
We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.
The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own. ]
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.