Lauren Crichton

“I have come to understand that the muscle of the imagination is strengthened through resistance, discipline, and order. These institutional bonds ultimately become a form of liberation where our dreams, alert and concentrated, can find their focus and run truly free.”

Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files

“The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your

“I want to do a different thing. I want to actually improve over time. I want to develop my own takes. I want to understand everything. And this is how the podcast improves over the long run too - by me becoming smarter and learning more shit. That is the underlying beta. Everything else is a temporary benefit at best (and more often, a total

“Look for what you notice
but no one else sees.”

— Rick Rubin The Creative Act