Not having a 32-inch waist for most of my adult life.
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The way some of the music industry is being run now. Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.
Not doing Diana’s wedding dress.
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Let's see. Well, kind of every day. Like I said, it doesn't go away - this is a sort of a thing you carry around with you. I like isolation. I've been isolated, you know, for six months or seven months now, however long it's been. At the same time, you can be happy inside and still worried about the world. I'm worried about the world as it is right now, so many people suffering and so much negativity.
Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.
Absolutely. My friend Charlie Lutes said the most we can do for ourselves is to take that dive within twice a day, bringing out more and more of that consciousness within and that consciousness has qualities, qualities of intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy, power, peace. All these things you’re gonna get more and more of. You cannot lose.
consciousness is the “I am-ness” of life. We can only say, “I am,” because of consciousness. And without consciousness, we wouldn’t exist.
The studios are superreluctant to give final cut. They have so much money riding on these things, so they want a committee to go and rule the roost.
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