Growing up, I thought salt belonged in a shaker at the table and nowhere else.
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."
Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.
A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.
If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn't. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it's wrong.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.
The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.
Sometimes, with the way you've been brought up, you try to just put your heart on your sleeve and play anywhere.
Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.
Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
