When You Trance Out Properly, When You're

Success Is Like Failure, It's How You Perceive It, It's What You Do With It, Not How You Achieve It.

Writing Is A Form Of Mischief.

Lyrics Have To Be Underwritten. That's Why Poets Generally Make Poor Lyric Writers Because The Language Is Too Rich. You Get Drowned In It.

The Last Collaborator Is Your Audience ... When The Audience Comes In, It Changes The Temperature Of What You've Written. Things That Seem To Work Well -- Work In A Sense Of Carry The Story Forward And Be Integral To The Piece -- Suddenly Become A Little Less Relevant Or A Little Less Functional Or A Little Overlong Or A Little Overweight Or A Little Whatever. And So You Start Reshaping From An Audience.

Let The Moment Go. . . . Don't Forget It For A Moment, Though. Just Remembering You've Had An "and" When You're Back To "or" Makes The "or" Mean More Than It Did Before. . . . Now I Understand! And It's Time To Leave The Woods.