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Air is stamina. Air is the confidence to take on big challenges or big opponents. Air is not the will to conquer whatever Everest you will encounter in your life, but it is the ability to endure the climb.
until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there’s a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.
Perhaps sometimes you have to refuse the call of religion, to stand up to it and say no. A religion that can so punish and degrade people is likely not being honest to God. Religion can be the biggest obstacle in your path.
Music has function, it can get people from A to Z, but it won’t do any of that unless, first, it gets you there—you the singer or you the player. Before music attempts its many good deeds, its first job is to save the music makers, in this case the guitar player in particular and this band in general.
It’s true what we’re told that kids teach us to grow up, but ours also taught us not to go too far.
A key component to greatness is that the work has to answer a deep personal desire to make it.
The change in someone else’s life will utterly transform yours, even though your life is not quite the point here. Is it?
The search for common ground starts with a search for higher ground. Even with your opponents. Especially with your opponents.
Trump is not the problem. He’s the symptom of the problem. He’s not the virus. He’s the super-spreader. The virus is populism, and it’s deadly as the plague. The real host is fear.
as Ali and I had kids, I slowly understood that you can’t have a child and remain a child. I really don’t like goodbyes, but sometimes you have to say goodbye. Even to yourself.
