I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'
I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.
To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.
My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.
