I've been truly protected by my uncles.
Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.