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Arrogance, procrastination, fear, humility... I slipped and said "humiliation" to my therapist the other day...anyway.... Someone asked if that was me? ...Ah, it'll be easy to make this new album. Maybe I can date two women at the same time? Well, at least one. I'll finish recording in the morning.... Oops. I lost all my drum tracks!
..."I always thought being young and beautiful, that I'd have men banging on my door forever," said the single actress pushing 40. Life gives you so many opportunities that sometimes you have to just stay in for fear of making the wrong decision. The high school Saturday nights watching TV translate into stacks of hand written phone numbers that seem to move from table to desk but never get dialed. Then that fiancée you had way too young calls you with news of her child....
Sometimes I feel like a student of life with an undeclared major. That doesn't mean I'm not idealistic (obviously) but it does mean that, though I know I'll change the world with this fantastic education, I haven't yet focused my parameters. And since I'm such a smart kid I won't even have to crack a book, the right path will just come to me. Damn, I'm blessed! ...Seriously, I do have a rare gig this time on the life cycle. So, yeah, it's about me again, working with kids when I'm not singing songs of my own. Kids I think I can help just because I've figured out that expressing your inner torments and joys tends to push you towards the joy side. Then I begin to doubt this all when I realize that these kids are struggling to take care of their own kids at an age when I was going to keg parties and writing essays in college that would get me D on the first draft then an A when I applied the "formula".... I'm encouraging these kids to take creative risks!? My faith in art is usually restored in the end, but it's a journey.
But about me? After September 11, after the week the US had left the UN 'Conference on Racism'... and after hearing the words good and evil thrown around as rallying cries in such a blanketed fashion, I prayed for a sense of humility to inspire worldwide introspection. A few months later I heard Ariel Sharon sound remarkably like George Bush in his quest to root out terrorism, while Bush tried to come up with a response. More eyes for more eyes....
"I rise to give her more...." When I love, I'm loved and more is expected me. It inspires me to give more. About me? About you? All of us? Yeah, I know some of you think you don't have an arrogant bone in your body. But remember that moment when you thought you knew it all, then freaked because you realized you didn't. Even if it was when you were 2 and thought it was perfectly groovy to whack yourself with a wooden spoon until you hit yourself so hard you cried....Humility.