“I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.”
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The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.