I needed to be in total contact with the present…so I could survive

Patti Smith

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life.

Charles Bukowski (via l-oo)

There’s a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck.

(via sausageandboots)

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

• Steve Maraboli  

(via this-is-not-here)

Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

• Christopher Barzak 

(via this-is-not-here)

So now ladies, I know that you get lonely. You get desperate. You get hungry. You get needy. You need something, you want something, you don’t know what it is! You have an endless hall, a empty vacant void. It’s starts here, it goes up to here, and it ends here! And you don’t know what to fill it with so you fill it with garbage, you fill it with sewage, you fill it with rot, you fill it with food, you fill it with drugs, you fill it with alcohol, YOU FILL IT WITH USELESS MEN. FORGET IT. The only thing I fill myself up with, is myself. Yeah. And ladies I’m urging you to do the same. To fill up your hole, not with another hole, not with another vacancy, not with another PIECE OF SHIT. But with your own power, your own heat, your own energy, your own life. YOUR OWN LIFE.

Lydia Lunch  (via 1995-cool)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

“…instead of carrying on an empire, I have to build one. And thats one helluva job for a [25] year old.”
-Tupac

Shawn Carter: Personally I was very surprised at your extensive knowledge of hip-hop songs. Particularly how you can sing ’90s hip-hip songs word for word. I can’t even do that! How does a girl from Spence discover hip-hop?

Gwyneth Paltrow: I first was exposed to hip-hop when I was about 16 (1988) by some boys who went to collegiate. The Beastie Boys were sort of the way in for us preppie kids. We were into Public Enemy, Run-DMC and LL Cool J. But then I went to LA the summer between my junior and senior year of high school and I discovered N.W.A which became my obsession. I was fascinated by lyrics as rythym [sic] and how Dre had a such different cadence and perspective from say, Eazy-E, who I thought was one of the most ironic and brilliant voices hip-hop has ever had. It was an accident that I learned every word of Straight Outta Compton and to love something that a.) I had no real understanding of in terms of the culture that it was emanating from and b.) to love something that my parents literally could not grasp. But I was hooked. I can’t remember what I ate for dinner last night but I could sing to you every single word of N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” or [Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock’s] “It Takes Two.” Go figure.