I've been free to do whatever I want
To make the shows I want anywhere I want with whom I want
In any style I want
So I, at first I don't know any other way
And by now I won't have it any other way
Life is good
Why settle for less?
Be open to experience
Be willing to try new things
Don't have a rigid plan except random acts of hospitality without judgment or fear
Don't be afraid to wander
Don't be afraid to eat a bad meal
You know, if you don't risk the bad meal you'll never get the magical one
But I think most important
[Chorus]
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful
Before I started traveling I thought that the human race as a whole will turn on itself at any moment, you know, venal, petty, cruel, arbitrarian
And it's true that all of those things exist in this world, but
I meet mostly pretty nice people
Doing the best they can, often under very, very difficult conditions
I met a lot of very nice people who've done very, very bad things that conflict with my deeply-held conceptions of justice and sexual equality or acceptable practice or religious views
There are a lot of gray areas in travel
But I think that on balance the world is filled with people doing the best they can, you know?
The best they can, you know?
[Chorus]
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
I've been fired many times during my cooking career
I was not a particularly good chef
I had a lot of problems at various parts of my career with narcotics
You know, I accepted failure as a chef because I was at various times a bad chef
And even a bad person
These days if I fail it's because I try to do something and did not succeed
Or I just was just was not able to do what I hoped to do or wanted to do
But I would much rather that
I would much rather fail gloriously than
Not try
I’m not interested in telling stories with competence
I’m looking at telling 'em with some style and originality and some creativity
To make the shows I want anywhere I want with whom I want
In any style I want
So I, at first I don't know any other way
And by now I won't have it any other way
Life is good
Why settle for less?
Be open to experience
Be willing to try new things
Don't have a rigid plan except random acts of hospitality without judgment or fear
Don't be afraid to wander
Don't be afraid to eat a bad meal
You know, if you don't risk the bad meal you'll never get the magical one
But I think most important
[Chorus]
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful
Before I started traveling I thought that the human race as a whole will turn on itself at any moment, you know, venal, petty, cruel, arbitrarian
And it's true that all of those things exist in this world, but
I meet mostly pretty nice people
Doing the best they can, often under very, very difficult conditions
I met a lot of very nice people who've done very, very bad things that conflict with my deeply-held conceptions of justice and sexual equality or acceptable practice or religious views
There are a lot of gray areas in travel
But I think that on balance the world is filled with people doing the best they can, you know?
The best they can, you know?
[Chorus]
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful
I've been fired many times during my cooking career
I was not a particularly good chef
I had a lot of problems at various parts of my career with narcotics
You know, I accepted failure as a chef because I was at various times a bad chef
And even a bad person
These days if I fail it's because I try to do something and did not succeed
Or I just was just was not able to do what I hoped to do or wanted to do
But I would much rather that
I would much rather fail gloriously than
Not try
I’m not interested in telling stories with competence
I’m looking at telling 'em with some style and originality and some creativity
One thing I wanted to say is, um...
One thing I wanted to say is, um...
Don't be fooled by the internet
Don't be fooled by the internet
It's cool, it's cool to get on the computer
But don't let the computer get on you
It's cool, it's cool to use the computer
Don't let the computer use you, y'all saw "The Matrix."
Y'all saw "The Matrix."
[Chorus]
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
So, be careful
Be careful
Be careful
Be careful
One thing I wanted to say is, um...
Don't be fooled by the internet
Don't be fooled by the internet
It's cool, it's cool to get on the computer
But don't let the computer get on you
It's cool, it's cool to use the computer
Don't let the computer use you, y'all saw "The Matrix."
Y'all saw "The Matrix."
[Chorus]
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
There's a war going on
The battlefield's in the mind, and the prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
The prize is the soul
So, be careful
Be careful
Be careful
Be careful
You know what's funny?
I never used to think about the fact about loving myself
I just wasn't that guy
The thing about loving myself
Came when I hit rock bottom
And I really hit bottom and it was a desperate attempt to save myself
I really fundamentally believe in the power of commitment and making commitments to yourself, you gotta keep them
And in this desperate moment I made this vow to myself
I was at bottom
My company had fallen apart, I lost everything, I was really sick, I was miserable and I was depressed
One morning or one night, it was dark and I just got out of my bed and I was like, I can't do this anymore
I can't do this anymore
I can't do this anymore
I'm either gonna get out of this
Or die trying
And I walked over to my journal, grabbed my pen and I wrote
I knew I had to make a vow to myself to get out this
I didn't know what
And I just sat down and I wrote
It was freehand
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
Where that came from, I had no idea
I still don't
It was a pure, primal vow
It came from a deep place of, literally, I was trying to save myself
And then I realized that, what I'd done I was like, okay, I don't know how to do that
I gotta figure it out 'cause I made a commitment to myself
And a vow to yourself is a sacred act
You do that, you keep it, and life will change
And I had to figure out how to do it
I knew I had to work on my internal self
It wasn't about taking bubble baths
It's an internal thing, it's a mindset, it's a belief. It's a rock solid belief where your thoughts and your feelings and your emotions rise from
If they rise from there then your life rises from there
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
We're human beings, and fundamentally we're stuck with the human mind, this monkey brain that runs around on this untamed horse, right?
The details differ, the core is the same
And fundamentally it's fear and love
I had a literal near-death experience going, that's what I experienced
The only things that came up
Were fear and love, fear and love
And those are the primary motivators
Fear and love, fear and love
Fear and love, fear and love
You can't fight fear
You can't fight darkness
Darkness is the absence of light
So what you do is you work on the light
You bring the light in, and that takes away the darkness
And so that's something I actually really learned trying to save myself
If I worked on the light it would take care of the rest
And that's love
And that's love
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I never used to think about the fact about loving myself
I just wasn't that guy
The thing about loving myself
Came when I hit rock bottom
And I really hit bottom and it was a desperate attempt to save myself
I really fundamentally believe in the power of commitment and making commitments to yourself, you gotta keep them
And in this desperate moment I made this vow to myself
I was at bottom
My company had fallen apart, I lost everything, I was really sick, I was miserable and I was depressed
One morning or one night, it was dark and I just got out of my bed and I was like, I can't do this anymore
I can't do this anymore
I can't do this anymore
I'm either gonna get out of this
Or die trying
And I walked over to my journal, grabbed my pen and I wrote
I knew I had to make a vow to myself to get out this
I didn't know what
And I just sat down and I wrote
It was freehand
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
Where that came from, I had no idea
I still don't
It was a pure, primal vow
It came from a deep place of, literally, I was trying to save myself
And then I realized that, what I'd done I was like, okay, I don't know how to do that
I gotta figure it out 'cause I made a commitment to myself
And a vow to yourself is a sacred act
You do that, you keep it, and life will change
And I had to figure out how to do it
I knew I had to work on my internal self
It wasn't about taking bubble baths
It's an internal thing, it's a mindset, it's a belief. It's a rock solid belief where your thoughts and your feelings and your emotions rise from
If they rise from there then your life rises from there
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
We're human beings, and fundamentally we're stuck with the human mind, this monkey brain that runs around on this untamed horse, right?
The details differ, the core is the same
And fundamentally it's fear and love
I had a literal near-death experience going, that's what I experienced
The only things that came up
Were fear and love, fear and love
And those are the primary motivators
Fear and love, fear and love
Fear and love, fear and love
You can't fight fear
You can't fight darkness
Darkness is the absence of light
So what you do is you work on the light
You bring the light in, and that takes away the darkness
And so that's something I actually really learned trying to save myself
If I worked on the light it would take care of the rest
And that's love
And that's love
[Chorus]
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
I vow to love myself
The substance of the tree is carbon, where did that come from?
It comes from the air
It's carbon dioxide from the air
People look at trees and they think it comes out of the ground
That plants grow out of the ground
But if you ask, where the substance comes from?
You find out, where did it come from?
Trees come out of the air?
They surely come out of the ground
No, they come out of the air
No, they come out of the air
The carbon dioxide in the air goes into the tree and it changes it
Kicking out the oxygen
And then pushing the oxygen away from the carbon and leaving the carbon substance with water
Water comes out of the ground
Only it came out of the air, didn't it?
Came down from the sky
So most of it, almost all of the tree is out of the ground
I'm sorry, it's out of the air!
Now, of course I told you the oxygen and carbon stick together very tight
How is it that the tree is so smart to manage to take the carbon dioxide, which is the carbon oxygen nicely combined and undo that so easy?
Ah, life. Life has some mysterious quirks
No, the sun is shining
And it's the sunlight that comes down and locks this oxygen away from the carbon
So it takes sunlight to get the plant to work
And so the sun, all the time, is doing the work of separating the oxygen away from the carbon, the oxygen is some kind of terrible byproduct, which it spits back into the air and leaving the carbon and water and stuff to make the substance of the tree
And then when we take the substance in the tree, and stick it in the fireplace
It is the only oxygen made by these trees
And all the carbon would much prefer to be close together again
And once you've let the heat to get it started, it continues and makes an awful lot of activity while it's going back together again
And all this nice light and everything comes out and everything is being undone, you're going back to carbon and oxygen, back to carbon dioxide
And the light and the heat that's coming out. That's the light and heat of the sun that went in
The sun that went in
[Pre-Chorus]
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out when you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out when you burn a log
[Chorus]
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
It comes from the air
It's carbon dioxide from the air
People look at trees and they think it comes out of the ground
That plants grow out of the ground
But if you ask, where the substance comes from?
You find out, where did it come from?
Trees come out of the air?
They surely come out of the ground
No, they come out of the air
No, they come out of the air
The carbon dioxide in the air goes into the tree and it changes it
Kicking out the oxygen
And then pushing the oxygen away from the carbon and leaving the carbon substance with water
Water comes out of the ground
Only it came out of the air, didn't it?
Came down from the sky
So most of it, almost all of the tree is out of the ground
I'm sorry, it's out of the air!
Now, of course I told you the oxygen and carbon stick together very tight
How is it that the tree is so smart to manage to take the carbon dioxide, which is the carbon oxygen nicely combined and undo that so easy?
Ah, life. Life has some mysterious quirks
No, the sun is shining
And it's the sunlight that comes down and locks this oxygen away from the carbon
So it takes sunlight to get the plant to work
And so the sun, all the time, is doing the work of separating the oxygen away from the carbon, the oxygen is some kind of terrible byproduct, which it spits back into the air and leaving the carbon and water and stuff to make the substance of the tree
And then when we take the substance in the tree, and stick it in the fireplace
It is the only oxygen made by these trees
And all the carbon would much prefer to be close together again
And once you've let the heat to get it started, it continues and makes an awful lot of activity while it's going back together again
And all this nice light and everything comes out and everything is being undone, you're going back to carbon and oxygen, back to carbon dioxide
And the light and the heat that's coming out. That's the light and heat of the sun that went in
The sun that went in
[Pre-Chorus]
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out when you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out when you burn a log
[Chorus]
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
Um, I was talking about that this weekend, thinking a lot about it
I think the two basic types of music indigenous to this country are
Um, the Black music blues
And the kind of folk music that was brought over from Europe
And I guess they call it country music or the kind of West Virginia high and lonesome sound
Those are the two mainstreams of the root American music
It looks like, uh 10 years ago what they call rock 'n' roll was kind of a blending of those two forms
Uh... I guess what's happening now is rock is kind of dying out
And everyone's going back to their roots again
Some are going back into country and some are going back into basic blues
I guess in four or five years the new generation's music will be, it'll have a synthesis of those two elements and some third thing
Some third thing
Maybe it will be, uh… it might rely heavily on electronics, tapes
I can kind of envision
I can, I can kind of envision, maybe, uh
One person with a lot of machines
One person with a lot of machines
One, one person with a lot of machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
One person with a lot of machines
One person with a lot of machines
One, one person with a lot of machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Tapes or electronic set ups, uh
Using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines
[Instrumental Bridge]
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines
I think the two basic types of music indigenous to this country are
Um, the Black music blues
And the kind of folk music that was brought over from Europe
And I guess they call it country music or the kind of West Virginia high and lonesome sound
Those are the two mainstreams of the root American music
It looks like, uh 10 years ago what they call rock 'n' roll was kind of a blending of those two forms
Uh... I guess what's happening now is rock is kind of dying out
And everyone's going back to their roots again
Some are going back into country and some are going back into basic blues
I guess in four or five years the new generation's music will be, it'll have a synthesis of those two elements and some third thing
Some third thing
Maybe it will be, uh… it might rely heavily on electronics, tapes
I can kind of envision
I can, I can kind of envision, maybe, uh
One person with a lot of machines
One person with a lot of machines
One, one person with a lot of machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
One person with a lot of machines
One person with a lot of machines
One, one person with a lot of machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Tapes or electronic set ups, uh
Using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines
[Instrumental Bridge]
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Using machines
Singing or speaking and using machines
Using machines