I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.