Sublime

At those times, the brain is in a state in which the prefrontal cortex is neither connected to nor soothing the subcortical system. Without that soothing and connection, we lose a pause between what we feel and what we do.

Don’t take yourself too seriously.

Take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Don’t worry. Worry your ass off.

Have iron-clad confidence, but doubt.

It keeps you alive and alert!

Believe you are the baddest ass in town – and [that] you suck!

It keeps you honest.

Be able to keep two completely contrad

From On the Road to Easy Rider to Thelma and Louise, the road is a ribbon that wends away from convention, obligation, and the oppression of domesticity. Freedom looks like the top down, hair whipping brazenly in the wind, refusing to be constrained, en route to “Wide Open Spaces” (Dixie Chicks).

“As Long as You Love Me,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” and “I’ll Never Break Your Heart,” all enormous hits.

music never starts with just music. It starts with inspiration.

By contrast, personal growth is personal growth, not collective growth—as if we could truly realize ourselves as individuals in a social context that denies that very right to so many.

I suppose the moral of the story is that of resourcefulness.

One of Lou’s songwriting maxims was ‘to be terrific, be specific’,