I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.