John’s speech
“I just wanna say this is our fourth time here in Brazil and it’s, ugh… It’s so amazing, man, you guys don’t know how you make us feel. I hope that somebody in your life can make you feel like you guys make us feel. Like, everything that you’ve been doing, all the hard work you’ve been putting into something… It makes it feel like this is making sense and this means something to somebody, so I just wanna say from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for having us back here, man. I just wanna tell you in as few words as possible, that you all, everybody individually, everybody in this room, anybody that you know, everybody that you’ve ever met, your parents, your friends, everybody… You guys should know this: you are the most beautiful thing on the face of this planet that you’ve ever discovered, okay? You need to understand that anything you wanna do in your life is possible, you’re capable of doing it because you’re fucking beautiful. This is amazing that you’re all here. And if I learned anything over the past eight years is that hard work means everything, nothing comes easy. All these things that you’ve always heard, everybody that sings songs about this shit, everybody that writes movies and it’s like “Hey, son! Nothing comes easy, alright?”, that shit is so true and I know we hear it too often for us to be, you know, understanding and believing it but I am telling you. I’m not gonna become an astronaut because I did too many drugs back at the day. I’m not allowed to go to space anymore but everything besides an astronaut, I can fucking be, you understand that? And all you can too, okay? I’m in a very, very cool place in my life and I know that some people out there can be very sad sometimes. I was very sad just a couple of years ago but life is about ups and downs and I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: life would not be what it is and it wouldn’t make it all make sense if the ups were only ups. You gotta understand the downs, you guys are fucking beautiful, just remember that, okay? We’re here for too little of a time to be down on ourselves and to be sad for too often, okay? So, take the sadness, understand it and fucking turn it into that happiness and just enjoy walking outside and seeing those fucking palm trees, you know what I mean? You guys live in a beautiful place. I’m so serious and I’m sorry for cursing so much, if my mom was here, she’d be very upset but I just wanted to say, man. Please take care of each other. Please take care of yourself most importantly. I got a message a long time ago, probably 3 or 4 months ago…. Fuck. It’s hard to talk about because I’ve been really, really low before and I’ve been… Fuck. *starts crying* I just wanted to say that it’s so much better to be here, it’s so much better to be alive, it’s so much better. Fuck, uh. I just wanted to say, man, that if you’re feeling low, it’s worth it to push through. It’s so, so worth it. We are so fortunate to be given life and we’re just so fortunate to be here, man, and all I gotta say is just fucking push through. It gets better, I tell you what, it does. It gets better and it fucking makes sense when you’re through it, alright? So, please, just be strong for each other, be strong for yourself, alright? Because we all deserve to be here. No matter anybody says, no matter how you feel. You fucking deserve to be here and I just want to thank you so much for supporting what we do and to allow us to make music, to allow me to write words and to express myself and fucking find a light at the end of the tunnel, man. So thank you very much, I love you guys. Thank you.” x
