This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
From Glen Hansard
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.
And I've always loved playing solo.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
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