I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in my life. And my - his wife, my grandmother, Earlene Tibbs - those experiences with them shaped me musically probably more profoundly than anything else in my life and shaped me as a writer.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.