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They needed 2 explore themselves without interference from each other.
Bobby Blue Bland,
A trip 2 Dee’s was a Happy Day.
Re-copying a lyric helps U 2 break down a line 2 c what it’s made [of].
could only go so far alone with no teacher. needed 2 b near my hero.
And if he2 needed something, no matter what it was, he would make it himself.
Asking him 2 take me 2 c Woodstock was like going 2 the Wizard of Oz 2 ask 4 a new brain.
the thought of spending the night with Santana, Jimi Hendrix, & Sly & the Family Stone
Calling back 2 mind the whole experience reminds me 2 do the best possibly can every chance get 2 b onstage because somebody out there is c-ing U 4 the 1st time.
Artists have the ability 2 change lives with a single per4mance.
My father & had R lives changed...
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The bond we cemented that...
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The Northside of Mpls. had 2 much testosterone 4 my taste growing up.
“Sideshow” by Blue Magic, “Show Me How” by the Emotions, [or] “Natural High” by Bloodstone?
Once get 2 my locker, like a scene from a John Hughes film, the locker door closes & Petey is standing right behind it, way 2 close 4 com4t. My heart skipped a measure & then ran out ahead of me 2 go catch the school bus home. She said, with the sweetest baby-like tone, “So, Prince, what’s it gonna B?” Much 2 my surprise, Joanne & Denise were standing right behind me, both with mistletoe, dangling it over my head. As Petey moved slowly closer 2 me, my heart came running back down the hallway & jumped in my chest, now pumped up from courage, where it belonged. Everything that happened next was
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“Pack’d My Bags”
About Time with Rachel McAdams.
Marcie loved inner exploration as much as did.
the movie Wattstax,
Cari was the 1st girl 2 expose a brotha 2 just straight-up animal lust. Where rational thought is overcome by the strength of physical attraction.
What happens when 2 lovers stare at one another without speaking so long the separation between them disappears & they become one. One What?
the freedom to create autonomously. Without anyone telling you what to do or how or why. Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age—we’re programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create.
Once I got out of high school it was interesting for a while because I didn’t have any money, I didn’t have any school, and I didn’t have any dependents, I didn’t have any kids, or girlfriends, or anything. I had cut myself off totally from everything. And that’s when I really started writing. I was writing like three or four songs a day.
Life is too confusing itself,
All I have to do is be true to myself.
In my subconscious I’m influenced by the sinisterness of it,
I knew there were gonna be rough times for the earth, because this system is based in entropy and it’s pretty much headed in a certain direction.
