Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.
I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.
Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
You don't criticize or critique your teammates if they're having a hard time. You try to encourage them just like you hope that they'll encourage you.
I've eaten lion, leopard, crocodile, python. I don't recommend lion. It tastes exactly like when a tomcat comes into your house and sprays. Snake and crocodile are great - a cross between lobster and chicken.
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.
