To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

