We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.