When people are sat quietly for 20-25 minutes per frame, they should be allowed to let their hair down at the end of it.
Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.
It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
I try to not take myself too seriously and just have fun when I'm not playing.
Too many people take the living experience too seriously.
My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
We need not be prisoners of our history.
I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
It's nice to get to do other things and not worry about fighting.
If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.
For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
It's better to not overthink and let things happen normally instead.
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.
Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.
Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.
