If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
I never thought my ideas would actually get published.
The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.