I FIND it an absolute pleasure to READ travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of PLACES I KNOW I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.
Think about it: No MATTER who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about LIVING in the present as best as I can. Try as I MIGHT, there is only so MUCH I am able to ACHIEVE on this front.
Have I learned SOMETHING from making records? Yeah, I've learned a LOT, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've ALSO probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large PART of another eleven records with other PEOPLE.
I think of L.A. as my HOME now, in LARGE part because I BECAME the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a LONG time, and then FINDING of the person I feel like I now am.
Along with the MUSIC, there is a large part of my father's legacy that has to do with what he had to say. What he believed in, what he stood for, the understanding of his own darkness, the faith that he had that drove him, and the great LOVE that he had for PEOPLE.
I WOULD like to be clear about the situation in Venezuela: Mr. Maduro's re-election on May 20, 2018, was illegitimate, as has SINCE been acknowledged by a large PART of the INTERNATIONALCOMMUNITY.