Faster Times interview
I can’t tell you how often half-remembered tales or misheard sentences find their way into songs. These things are ingested in what I think of as inhalation mode. I find that I am drawn inexplicably to certain flames of interest (books, films, works of art, jaw-dropping gossip) and am so dazzled by their brilliance that I come away scorched by only... See more
Laura Marling • The Tarot of Songwriting 08 - Strength
As far back as I can remember, I’ve struggled to be able to express what was in my head. Whether it was drawing, writing, design, I was never happy with the result.
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It took me over a decade to be able to give life to my ideas and ideals in the form of wor
... See moreWhereas I found that if my main motivation is to “accomplish” something or get a pitch accepted or get a poem accepted or whatever, then I end up chasing this idea of what a writer is supposed to be, instead of going back to the roots of myself. Ultimately, for me, poetry is just about being in communion with ideas and thoughts and trying to, yeah,
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