So the other day I go and download maybe fifty hours of The Sound of Young America, a radio show focusing on comedy and art and stuff. Already on media overload, I’m still not through very much of it, but I came across an interesting quote on the creative process from Henry Rollins:

“Everyone who tries to be creative or whatever, you come up with that thing that works.

“I know some people, songwriters, who treat it like a 9 to 5 job. They walk into the room, sit down and do 8 hours of songwriting and then it’s 5 o’ clock and they put the guitar down or step away from the piano and go home. You know, whatever works.

“For me, I’ve always wanted to live in it, to where I didn’t know that it wasn’t anything but real life. Where you’re so deeply committed to it that you don’t know anything else.”