Frank Sinatra's Never Been Handsome,

At The Same Time, You Don't Want To Be Blindsided At Some Point Because You've Taken Too Much Comfort From Knowing Nothing. So You Try To Keep A Little Store Of Practical Knowledge. At A Certain Point You Have To Pretend That Something Is True In Order To Have A Relationship With The World.

It Is More Rewarding To Be Complicit With Scarcity Than Excess.

When You're Listening To A Recording, You're Supposedly Listening To Some Aspect Of The Past In The Present As You Travel Slowly Into The Future, But You Also Know There's A Very Strong Likelihood That The Future Of That Recording, Whether You Made It Or Whether You're Listening To A Led Zeppelin Record, Is Going To Continue Probably Far Beyond Where You Are.

I Had A Lot Of Time To Myself, And I Would Listen To A Lot Of Music, Mostly Music That I Knew Fairly Well And Had A Relationship With. And I'd Think, Well, What Is It That I've Never Been Able To Do That This Person Or People Are Able To Do With This Song? Why Haven't I Been Able To Do It, And What Can They Do That I Wish I Could Do? And Then I'd Try To Do That. I'd Start Each Day Getting Into The Songs, And I'd Think About How I Might Get Closer To This Music That I Love, But Haven't Been Able To Make Before.

As It Turns Out, As An Adult I Can Have A Very Unpleasant, Fierce And Unforgiving Temper At Times. But I Don't Think I Had That When I Was A Kid.