My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with...

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with...

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original...

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original...

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree...

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree...

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work -...

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work -...

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck...

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck...

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't...

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't...

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm...

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm...

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are...

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are...

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to...

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to...

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm...

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm...

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision...

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision...

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind...

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind...

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects...

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects...