When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be,” Lao Tzu

Sometimes I feel like I want to hibernate for months on end, be an anti-social recluse like Salinger and selfishly create art,

But you’ve got to pay the bills, make the rent, go to work and maintain real-life relationships,

Sometimes I used to wish I was never ever a creative person at all,

I’d think maybe I should’ve studied Medicine or Law; I would have made a lot more money,

But sometimes you just got to go and do other things, get on a plane and travel, meet new people; have fun and gain new experiences,

Sometimes people close to you cannot see what it is you do, as an artist, and what it’ll amount to, sometimes I used to think maybe they have a point,

But as I sat in a coffee shop a few summers ago mad-relaxed looking out of a floor-to-ceiling window at the busy 9-to-5 rush hour traffic I said to myself, “Pah! What do they know.”

Sometimes it’s easy to take your passion for granted; your egg-shell fragile ego and confidence can be shattered,

Then you’ll see a great film or play; go to a brilliant exhibition, or hear some band with a raw new sound on the radio and you’ll remember why you first became an artist,

Sometimes when I look back at the times when I could’ve quit I’m glad I kept going,

As it is from all of those sometime moments that I created the art that is my most authentic and rewarding.

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