Having Unlimited Choices Can Paralyze You Creatively.

There's Something About Music That Encourages People To Want To Know More About The Person That Made It, And Where It Was Recorded, What Year It Was Done, What They Were Listening To, And All This Kind Of Stuff. There's Something That Invites All This Obsessive Behavior.

I Think Sometimes I Get Carried Away, Like I'm Speaking To An Imaginary Audience Rather Than Just Trying To Figure Something Out For Myself. Ideally, I Try To Balance That - That I'm Asking These Questions Of Myself, How Does This Work, Why Does This Happen, What's Going On Here.

Book Learning, Or Intelligence Of One Sort, Doesn't Guarantee You Intelligence Of Another Sort.you Can Behave Just As Stupidly With A Good College Education.

Living "in" A Story, Being Part Of A Narrative, Is Much More Satisfying Than Living Without One. I Don't Always Know What Narrative It Is, Because I'm Living My Life And Not Always Reflecting On It, But As I Edit These Pages I Am Aware That I Have An Urge To See My Sometimes Random Wandering As Having A Plot, A Purpose Guided By Some Underlying Story.

I'd Been Keeping Tour Diaries, And Especially When I Go Somewhere Where I Felt The Experience Might Be Interesting, Like Eastern Europe Or South America Or Whatever, Where The Whole Perception Of What I Was Doing There And Stuff That I Was Seeing And Music I Was Hearing, I Could Put All That Into A Diary.