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Success as an outworking of dysfunction, an excuse for obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Success as a reward for really, really hard work, which may be obscuring some kind of neurosis. Success should come with a health warning—for the workaholic and for those around them.
the promise that’s at the very heart of rock ’n’ roll, which is that you can have the world but in return the world will have you. You can have your messiah complex, but you must die on a cross aged thirty-three, or everyone has the right to ask for their money back. We’ve turned them down. So far.
A job is a thing where you do something you don’t really like for eight hours a day for five or six days a week in return for money to help you do the stuff on the weekend you want to do all the time.
Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.
