Top Highlights

• Being something isn’t real in the same way that doing something can be real.
• Maybe it’s a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns—what you want to do, not what you want to be.
• If we’re being realistic about what an end goal should be, creating something with no ambition other than to get something off our chest might be the purest thing anyone could aim for.
• It was the first time I confirmed for myself that inspiration wasn’t always the first ingredient in a song. In this case it was demand. Eventually I found inspiration in the process and even felt good about taking their money to teach myself that lesson. The song didn’t “chart,” even though the label dudes claimed that they loved it and that they w...
• Most of the time, inspiration has to be invited.