When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
You always have energy to do what you are passionate about.
To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.