I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
The more you act the further you get away from the truth.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.
