There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.
The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.
When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
There's no shortage of material in life.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.
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