The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.
When you just coast through work and don't feel inspired, I feel you are lying to yourself.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.
