Sam Tallent

And then out of nowhere, some chords fit together and then he has a song.

Yeah.

Yeah, but you can't write a book unless you're in front of the typewriter.

You can't write a song unless you're in front of the keyboard.

All these guys are like, how do you write a book?

It's like, you have to be at the station where you do the work.

You can't just sit there and be like, oh man, I'm going to write a book one day.

No, sweat over the keys until you have a thousand words or whatever you need for that day to be done.

Because everyone wants to talk about like, oh, I want to write this book.

And it's like you telling me you want to write a book just set you back six months.

Because you get the same hit of adrenaline and dopamine by telling someone your idea as actually like accomplishing that thing.

Yeah, I think that's very dangerous to tell people you're doing stuff when you're not actually doing it.

Well, it's like we have – we always count on inspiration to come into our lives.

But if you can kind of, like –

create a situation where that inspiration is more easily available to you whatever that is it's playing your music it's drinking coffee like however you can like try and harness that ethereal thing that is inspiration I think you can be a better creative and like you said become more professional in creating yeah

Yeah, that was a big thing for me when I wrote my book was to write and then go on a walk.

And maybe smoke a little weed.

And then you see it all differently and you can come back and realize what was bullshit and like what was a complete waste of time.

And then go back in and try and address that.

And then also grow the things that were like a little idea.