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I Had A Lot Of Time To Myself, And I Would Listen To A Lot Of Music, Mostly Music That I Knew Fairly Well And Had A Relationship With. And I'd Think, Well, What Is It That I've Never Been Able To Do That This Person Or People Are Able To Do With This Song? Why Haven't I Been Able To Do It, And What Can They Do That I Wish I Could Do? And Then I'd Try To Do That. I'd Start Each Day Getting Into The Songs, And I'd Think About How I Might Get Closer To This Music That I Love, But Haven't Been Able To Make Before.

It's Nice To Be Able To Backtrack And Not Be Embarrassed By The Music You Used To Listen To.

The Sense Of Waking Up In The Morning And Knowing That There Is Music Ahead Of Me In The Day Is Such An Incredible Feeling. The More I Engage With Music The More Days I Wake Up And Know That That's What's Going To Be There, And The Things That Come With Music.

You're Hoping That It's Going To Be An Extraordinary Experience Any Time You Create And/or Listen To Music With Other People. I Guess What I've Been Saying Over The Past Few Minutes Is That It's Hard To Do That, To Create That.

I Feel Like, For Me, Reading Thomas Merton Is Like “wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn’t A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself”. When You're A Ways Into It, You're Five Pages In, 20 Pages In, 30 Pages In, It Seems Like One Of The More Oxymoronic Undertakings You Could Attempt.