The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.

A poem can convey information that can’t be transmitted through prose or conversation. And all art is poetry.

Competition serves the ego. Cooperation supports the highest outcome.

Sometimes the most valuable touch a collaborator can have is no touch at all.

Success is harder to come by when your life depends on it. Art is an unstable

By practicing to improve, you are fulfilling your ultimate purpose on this planet.

The only practice that matters is the one you consistently do, not the practice of any other artist. Find your most generative method, apply it, and then let it go when it is no longer of use. There is no wrong way to make

No matter what route you take, if you complete the journey, you will reach the same destination. This destination is a work we feel energized to share. One we look back on and wonder in amazement how it could have come from us.

Two weeks later, there will come a time when someone will ask a question like: What was that lyric we loved? What was the previous version of that element like? Which take was the best for the fill going into the second chorus? And we go back to the notes. There’s a great volume of material