To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee

I feel for the lonely, I sense their need, but I also feel that the lonely are for one another and that they should find each other and leave me alone.

Book of the day: The People Look Like Flowers At Last by Charles Bukowski

Miles Davis—Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

You want to know what the world is about? No one knows what to think. If we could just embrace not knowing for a second, we might have a chance.

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

That I’m weird. Being called weird is a weird thing because… can you feel weird if you’re doing what you want to do? I don’t think so. Weird is when people aren’t doing what they are meant to do, you know, or aren’t doing anything creative or caring—- that is weird because that doesn’t benefit the whole, which in turn won’t benefit you, that’s fucking weird.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

‘Making music’ is just making music and that’s where it ends. It ends where I listen back to it. 'Making records’ is taking the music you’ve made and putting it onto a CD and getting involved with all of the music industry side, which isn’t really anything to do with music at all. It’s all to do with career and stuff like that.