and i suppose the rest of you are
waiting for me to vomit out some
profound words of wisdom
listen
the world
needs
people like you
the world is literally dying
for your kind
embrace that responsibility and run with
it
get out there in your deep give back
it's not going to be
easy never gonna be easy for much of it
you'll stand alone but you've got to
stand strong
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i mean i beg you
do not give in to mediocrity
like the other 98 of the world
because you would be doing
yourselves
and the world
the greatest groups
you're all too smart
you're too smart to let it go to waste
i mean you've got one
shot at this one shot
don't let a moment of itself buy
grab it snatch it up make it yours
celebrate every moment
celebrate every breath
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telling you life
it's a birds
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one of the greatest pieces of advice
i've ever gotten in my life was from my
mom you know when i was a little kid
there was a kid who was bugging me you
know in school
and she said okay i'm gonna tell you
what to do
you see the kid's bugging you
he puts his hands on you
you pick up the nearest rock
or whatever you can get your hands on
you lay him out
and i did
and i felt better
and it worked
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so
for me you know that that was a great
lesson because
someone had invaded my
my space invaded my being you know
and
i was doing something
against me that i didn't want to be done
so i
took
control of the situation and i
ran with it and
i promised myself that i would
continue to move forward
and uh
do my best not to compromise in any way
whatsoever you know not not allow anyone
to put their hands on me
and affect me in that way so uh
that's the best advice i i think i could
give is just to keep moving forward and
don't don't give it to anybody
just keep moving forward and do what you
have to do for you
why was pumping gas most definitely
printing t-shirts and selling ink pens
and you know i mean every any anything
and everything
yeah and then the fact that you have a
20 20-year career of failures and then
you do a pirate movie and that buys you
an island i i'm still exactly the guy
that used to pump gas you know i'm still
the guy that was a mechanic for a minute
you know i'm still exactly i just happen
to have a weird weirder job at the
moment you know
there was a guy who i worked with many
years ago and we were talking about
success and money and all that stuff and
he told me this one thing he said you
know money doesn't
change anybody
money reveals
same thing with success and uh
i believe that you know
wholeheartedly
if we could celebrate
every breath
that we take
because nothing's a guarantee
if we could celebrate the breath and the
exhale
which is
being alive
without
you know oh my car won't start oh geez
you know the cat dropped dead
hey i you know i think i would need a
lobotomy uh
you know
i mean
there are things that are very very
important in life that we
we just
we don't think about you know
and one of the most worrisome things
that i i went through for years is
you freaked out freaked out about your
past
you're worried you're scared to death of
the future
and that's all you're thinking about but
the now doesn't exist
you know
and and i think that's a grave mistake
that we make
somebody hands you the ball
and you run
you know i mean and if you get hit you
get hit
maybe you make it through uh you never
know but i mean i i just know that
somebody handed me the ball at a certain
point
and i was hungry enough to keep running
um and i'm still running i maintain a
hunger
but not an ambition
you know i i
i'm very happy to
explore all possibilities for the
character and and really you know
dive in um
to um to the role
i mean to the point of where you know
disney wanted to wanted to fire me they
wanted to fire you from pirates yeah
because
they couldn't understand what i was
doing they didn't understand the
character they were actually
contemplating subtitling the film you
know well i i'd already i was already i
started playing the guitar at the age of
12. i felt a a
a passion for it that uh
yeah it was the first real passion that
i that i that i had and i and i can
safely say because i feel and i felt
then that the word ambition
has become dirty
you know yeah because ambition somehow
implies that
so ambition was a dirty word to me
because it felt like you were working
for some gain or material
or some status or
so i
literally don't remember going through
puberty
because i locked myself in a room at the
age of 12 12 13 and
i just
played the guitar learned things off
records and taught myself how to play
and it was my life
and it was the only solace
it was the only
sanctuary it was the only security it
was the
it was my first love there were other
things that i probably should have done
not
from my perspective i mean from my point
of view i did the right things every
every film
that i've done i'm happy that i that i
made that choice i don't have any
regrets whatsoever
but i mean
in terms of
uh sustaining
um
box office
you know bank ability
i should have done a few of the things
that i didn't do but
i'm glad i didn't do it
because it wouldn't have been you
yeah it would have been for the wrong
reasons
i did
everything that i've
been lucky enough to do i did for the
right reasons you
have to realize that
whatever your day is whatever you're
doing whatever your job is whatever
people think of you or project you to be
none of it matters
uh really until you look around and see
um people who
who are in need
and um i think the probably the best
benefit of my job is to
to help
to make people smile
who otherwise uh wouldn't or couldn't
have a smile on their face so um
yeah
that's my deal
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