As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
