OneRepublic chat to I Like Music

RYAN: You can't take for granted that every person has a different set of parents and some people have no parents and parents are huge motivators or de-motivators, depending on what your parents are like. But, excluding any influence that parents may have on somebody, my motto has become at this point: life is way too short to not do what you love, whether it pays a million dollars a year or a hundred dollars a week, life is too short, that's really my whole philosophy. You're not guaranteed another day.

I've had friends who've tragically died in car wrecks, when they were 18 or 24 or had things happen to them they never could have predicted, so if you really think about life that you're never promised another day, that really inspires you to that day, every day do exactly what it is you want to do. If what you want to do isn't something that pays a ton of money or you think it'll be a while before you can do it professionally, it doesn't matter, you just do it. Because, if you do what you love, then that's what you're going to be best at. Whatever you do for free, that's what you should do for your job. And people can come up with all sorts of excuses, but life's too short and I think it's a tragedy to not go for what you want to do however crazy it sounds.
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