I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.
There are bands, like R. E. M. , who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the CD at the shows if you like the show. You may not listen to the CD, you might just throw it in the back of your car and let it warp in the sun. The main thing was you saw the song at the show.
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.
There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.
Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.
What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.