Fearlessness
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Fearlessness
“Fearlessness is the loss of my original design. I wanted to be Bruce Springsteen, I wished so badly that I could have had platinum records 10 years ago when there weren’t paparazzi and there weren’t these new nuisances, encroaching incidences that really bring about fear. Joking in front of a cameraman outside of a restaurant is an incredibly fearful event.
“And what I realized in the last six months of my life is true fearlessness is not letting other people steal your design from you, and anything I’ve become in the last couple of years is an accident, because I was only defending the original design and not letting people get to me, and not letting people try to take away the calm I was given by my parents and replace it with this white-hot Hollywood fear.
“And so fearlessness really is not fun. … In the last couple of years I’ve only really begun to do my thing and feel comfortable. And when you give up the design and just become who you are, you’ll find that it’s a hell of a lot more natural than micromanagement.”
--- John Mayer
“Fearlessness is the loss of my original design. I wanted to be Bruce Springsteen, I wished so badly that I could have had platinum records 10 years ago when there weren’t paparazzi and there weren’t these new nuisances, encroaching incidences that really bring about fear. Joking in front of a cameraman outside of a restaurant is an incredibly fearful event.
“And what I realized in the last six months of my life is true fearlessness is not letting other people steal your design from you, and anything I’ve become in the last couple of years is an accident, because I was only defending the original design and not letting people get to me, and not letting people try to take away the calm I was given by my parents and replace it with this white-hot Hollywood fear.
“And so fearlessness really is not fun. … In the last couple of years I’ve only really begun to do my thing and feel comfortable. And when you give up the design and just become who you are, you’ll find that it’s a hell of a lot more natural than micromanagement.”
--- John Mayer
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