I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.
No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.
M&S clothes just get better and better, year after year. I'm always begging for stuff from every shoot we do.
The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'
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Everyone has failed at something in this life. So chalk it all up to experience & move on. Tomorrow gives you a new chance to start over and try to make things right. Enjoy the new day & your life!
