… Another thing is the power of saying yes. Every good thing that’s come in my life, or every time I’ve gone to the next level in life, it’s always because I said yes. Like with the Smash Mouth thing, it was the strangest, unexpected thing to happen. I just thought about it, and I’m like, “say yes, because what’s the worst that can happen? I could fail, I can get picked out, I can quit, I can die on stage”, Say yes, and try it, and great opportunities come when you say yes to things and embrace things. No is important too. You can’t give everybody all of your time. You have the power to say no, but if you say yes to things and say yes to experiences, in my experience, good things almost always come out of that. Even if it’s a failure, you…
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