"My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck."

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Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

Chris Isaak

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“There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.”
“Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.”
“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.”
“The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.”
“I did indulge myself in a lot of history reading, to inform myself as to who the real woman was. As far as other actressesâ€™ portrayals, though, I tried to stay clear. It muddles your process, I find.”
“But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?”
“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”
“Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part III:". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 15, 2011.

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