You're basically a filter for your experiences. I suppose when you're younger you have to rely more on your intuition, and when you're older you can rely on your experience. I don't sense the net in which I catch ideas. To me it's just like I have a big broad net and all of these ideas come like plankton or krill or something, you know, and I gather them all in. If it works, I make a song out of it and if it doesn't, I just sort of chuck it back in the sea. Sometimes you just have to do a bit more living, and then the songs will come.
This was taken from a short Studio 360 interview [Link to the archived show] in November. I liked the metaphor, specifically for the way he pinpoints that part of us that we never really see- the part that makes us see Minivans everywhere once you decide that you have to buy one, or the part of us to which whatever is appealing or noticeable, is appealing or noticeable.
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