harrisonarchive: George Harrison, 1992; photo by Nigel Parry.“Well, I think we all go through
harrisonarchive: George Harrison, 1992; photo by Nigel Parry.“Well, I think we all go through our lives, and we must do what we must do. You know, and it’s like, my life, instead of being in a working band like we started out — you start to get good as a musician — and then I got diverted into being a pop star. So I lost out as far as being a musician goes… We all have the ups and downs of our individual lives, and we must do what we must do. So, you know, I’m quite happy with what happened because the result of it is… what I am now, I wouldn’t be this if I’d have been that, you know, it’s as simple as that. You know, I’m quite happy with my [chuckles] lot.” - George Harrison, In The Studio, 1992 (x)“Fame is a good thing in terms of giving you a heightened experience or at least more experience. But then it’s what you do with that, or what that uncovers. I think for me, you know, as I say, I realized I just want more — this isn’t it, this isn’t it. You know, fame is not the goal. Although money’s nice to have — it can buy you a bit of freedom, you know, you can go the Bahamas when you want — but it doesn’t… it’s not the answer. And the answer is, you know, how to get peace of mind and to be happy. That’s really what we’re supposed to be here for, and the difficult thing is that we all go through our lives and through our days and we don’t experience bliss. It’s a very subtle thing to experience that, and to be able to do that is something you don’t just stumble across, you’ve got to search for it. […] It means controlling the mind and being able to transcend the relative states of consciousness — waking, sleeping, dreaming — which is all we really know, but there is another state that goes beyond all that, and it’s in that state that the bliss and the knowledge that’s available is.” - George Harrison, VH1, taped on 14 May 1997 (x) -- source link