You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.
You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.
When you make a great record, it's around forever.
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