I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I love learning new techniques.
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.