If all you have is music, then you don't have music
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Your humanity is your instrument.
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.