Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hallis an American mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is a leader in the peer support movement and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement. Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognized internationally as an innovator in the treatment and societal response to psychosis...
creativity people cooking
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
good-mood should reservations
If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.
mom mother cancer
I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.
assistants rooms superstar
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
heart causes problem
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
two ephemeral depth
To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.
thinking age golden
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
artist years careers
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
fun mtv pioneers
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
philadelphia black towns
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
boys careers ideas
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
differences people generations
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.
gone stepchild stepchildren
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
hard-work ifs hard
If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.