Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.
Dan ManganThe idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.
Dan ManganI think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
Dan ManganI grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
Dan ManganI remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.
Dan Mangan