I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
Sex is funny and love is serious.
Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.
It's important to face down your demons.
Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth. '
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try. " Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try. " I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.