A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
“All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.”
“Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.”