I'm using my energy to take off the weights.

So in the end, I kick your ass.

This is the flavor.

As soon as I started caring, being less attached

about the outcome of the success and the money,

and the intentions going into things coming from a more pure place,

the opportunity's doubled.

All the things I wanted to happen happened without even trying.

I just got a tattoo right here.

Don't try.

Charles Bukowski.

Charles Bukowski wrote that on his tombstone.

Yeah.

And just the idea, even sitting here with you,

if I was the old me would try to take the wheel

and steer my music career the way I needed to be.

Like, I wouldn't be sitting here doing a podcast.

You know what I mean?

Like, but it's been so special because I just went with the flow

of like, where life, the pivots, that life,

have given me, realizing that in hindsight,

I look back and I realize that's why I've been rewarded

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