Jacques Brel Interview: Live your life now ... not later

Stupidity, is laziness. Stupidity, is a guy that sits and says 'My life ... well it suffices. I live OK, I am happy, I am satisfied, it is enough'.

A stupid guy is a guy that doesn't wake every morning horrified with the fact that he hasn't seen enough, that he hasn't learned enough and that he hasn't done enough.

~ Jacques Brel, Songwriter and Singer

Man (male) is a nomad. Man is made to travel, to move around, to see what is there at the other side of the hill.

And ... women, by essence, want to stop him: so a man stops next to a woman, and the woman wants him to make an egg with her. All women, with no exception, want this.

Then we make an egg with her. So, the man makes a house around the egg to protect it from the cold and the wind.

And then ... he stays there ... for the rest of his life.

And during some nights, he dreams ... and he says "I wanted to be a pilot, I wanted to be a ...".

Unhappy men ... are men that have not realized their dreams. Women are the most wonderful enemy, as what would I do if I didn't have such wonderful enemies ? (laughs)

~ Jacques Brel

A scene from the past. A man alone on a stage, a camera that is out of focus, a frame that is loose. However, even at this old video, something magic makes it through. Something that reminds you, that all the fears that you may have felt and all the life experiences that you will ever have, someone else has been through them looong time ago ... And then you come to the most bizarre conclusion that this guy, that no longer exists, may have lived life with more intensity than you have.

Passion.

Can you prove that you are alive ?