“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

“If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.”

“You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.”

“Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.”

“... the delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].”