I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn't what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess...but I don't want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right.
Will OldhamYou're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.
Will OldhamAs far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.
Will OldhamThere's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
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