Anonymous asked: I think I want to be a musician. I'm afraid my friends will laugh and not take me seriously and I'm even more afraid that my parents will want me to focus on school. I'm the most afraid that I won't be good enough. What do I do?

Whether you want to be a musician or an accountant, someone is going to be like, ‘that’s stupid.’ And you are going to be like, ‘go fuck yourself, you douche canoe.’ Mostly because douche canoe is a hysterical word, but also because you have to stand up for yourself. While I believe in still going to college and getting kickass grades (which many of my musician friends have done) you need to follow your heart. There’s no rule that says you can’t do well in school and play music. If you don’t do what you want, you’ll kick your own ass down the road, but you’ll also kick your own ass if you don’t at least give yourself a chance at school too. Just for reference:

Girl Talk has a BS in biomedical engineering
John Legend has a BA in English
Kenney Chesney has a BA in advertising
Ted Leo (of and the pharmacists) has a BA in English
Greg Graffin (Bad Religion - I’m not old goddammit) has his bachelors in anthropology and geology, a masters in geology and a doctorate of zoology
Rivers Cuomo has a bachelors in American Literature from Harvard
Dexter Holland from The Offspring has a masters in molecular biology