no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.
Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.
We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.
Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.
