deification

amelioration

I found a strength and confidence that I could just do this potentially dangerous thing and who cares if it works or doesn’t? I knew it would be risky, because I was giving people permission to ask anything they wanted, but my thinking was, ‘What does it really matter what happens?’ So that was a big shift in my thinking, for sure: to relinquish co

Yes, now you point it out, that’s exactly right. Most of the time, I have no idea what I am doing while I’m doing it. It is almost purely intuitive. That should be pretty clear. But I do have a strong commitment to the primary impulse, the initial signalling of an idea – what we could call the divine spark. I trust in it. I believe in it. I run wit

We need to stay alert to this and call out bad choices when we see them. Or, at least, present our truth as we see it.

solace,

spend more time hanging out at the better end of my character.

They’re part of the dynamic core of my life, and maybe to stop writing them would be to somehow abandon the active engagement with that life. The songs give my life character.

art does have the ability to save us, in so many different ways. It can act as a point of salvation, because it has the potential to put beauty back into the world.