The only thing I care about is the music and the performance. That's the only reason I'm here.

"History is not just about the past; it is about how we understand the present and shape the future."

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.