I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Enmity immediately tumbles away when one side lets it fall.
Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
I'm gradually getting rid of all the things I don't need.
If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.
When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.
I just reared back and let them go.
