And who knows which is which and who is who.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Life is long. But it goes fast.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.