More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
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.
it’s not enough just to be funny. You have to be smart as well, and I am smart enough to know I’m not smart. Enough.
That felt like the right kind of fuck-you to the universe that a great punk rock song requires.
Free yourself to be yourself
But everything isn’t okay. And everything won’t be okay. Everything will be different.
The stars are bright but do they know The universe is beautiful but cold.
Sometimes, goes the old spiritual, I feel like a motherless child. What is it about the loss of a mother? Does something inside the child feel that the mother chose to leave?
Abandonment is probably the root of paranoia. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, John Lydon, so many rock ’n’ roll singers lost their mothers at an early age. There must be something to this. A friend tells me of a parallel abandonment in hip-ho...
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
But prayers aren’t always answered in the way you want. I didn’t know that then.
That’s a part of my rage and maybe even some wild, irrational blame that he, the head of the house, was responsible for the destruction of it. He must be to blame if we’re all in this trouble.
was coming to understand that you have the people you need right there beside you if you can see them. Guggi
Rock ’n’ roll is the sound of revenge,
I am becoming aware that the life of a romantic can sometimes be confusing for the heart. I have evidence, I am reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. I
“Drummer seeks musicians to form band.” How casually our destiny arrives.
Edge is the silence inside every noise. He’s the light inside the paint.
That’s how post-punk John Lydon is. We’ve gone from three chords to two. This is maximum minimalism!
If you’re where you should be, you’ll meet whom you need to meet.
I discovered early that I was collaborative by nature. I began to understand that the world is not so scary if, around every significant corner, somebody is waiting to walk with you on the next part of the journey.
There is no them There’s only us.
What cruel blows are meted out to the kindest hearts.
In fear that the good guys may turn communist, we support the bad guys who keep them down.
“I dare you not to see the fire in me.” I knew what she meant.
There are only two feelings. Love and fear. There are only two languages. Love and fear. There are only two activities. Love and fear.
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
“Life’s too serious to be so serious.”
We’d rather be best friends, and that meant being truthful. Friendship is not a sentimental business.
we are not very good at the instant and that the eternal is nowhere to be seen.
years will always steal your glory as they offer you longevity.
Huge boulders fall on your head just like that, from some unseen mountain when you’re not looking up. When you’re not looking anywhere. The change in someone else’s life will utterly transform yours, even though your life is not quite the point here. Is it?
“poverty is not natural. It is man-made,
he taught me to listen. This, it turns out, takes a serious spiritual resolve for someone like me, with a big mouth and a big foot that’s often in it.
philosophy behind truth and reconciliation—his deep belief that they have to happen in that order, that we need to see ourselves before we can be redeemed. Only after the truth has its way can a clenched fist become an open hand.
“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
“Some people sing for a living / some people sing to survive / I sing cause I don’t want to be alone tonight.”
