Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.
Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.
Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.
I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.
I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you're open to it.
