“It’s much easier to craft something beautiful out of a pile of garbage than it is to build something amazing out of thin air.”

“I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.”

“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.”

“It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”