(soft electronic music)
- I think I've had a lot of stretches of drought
where I just can't get anything that I'm into,
and now I just kind of treat them as exploratory phases.
(electronic music)
A lot of the road blocks to getting something
done are just like, you start telling yourself
that you're not doing a good job.
There's days where I can tell I'm in
a more creative and excited mood,
and so then I'll work into the night
and get as much out of it as I can,
'cause then you kind of crash and everything you just did
doesn't sound that good anymore.
When I'm feeling really blocked
I'll start enforcing required work hours everyday,
if you just kind of keep working
you'll usually find your way out
of whatever problems you're in.
You don't always have to have that real creative feeling.
Sometimes it's hard to start from scratch, you almost treat
your old, discarded works as something to remix.
I like to have everything set up and ready to go,
I'll just skip trying something because I don't
want to find the piece of equipment or hook it up.
After a while when you're just working at home
it gets a little claustrophobic,
I guess it's like absence makes the heart grow fonder,
it gets me excited to come back and be in here.
I think it's good to exercise a creative heart
even when you're not doing your main thing.
I got into weaving, so sometimes I'll take
a couple of days off of working on music and weave.
I was doing crocheting before that, making crocheted plants.
I've always had a short attention span with
what kind of stuff I'm making.
I get annoyed when people that I like totally change sounds
and maybe it's not what I'm interested in,
but I just know that if I'd force myself to worry about
what other people would be interested in,
I can't work, it slows me down too much.
If I like a song but I just can't figure out how
to totally finish it, I'll just post it for free,
just as like a work in progress.
Sometimes I appreciate an artist that is very
disciplined and reserved with what they release,
but I've never been able to do that myself.
Waiting for your muse is like a
luxury that you don't always have.
If you just kind of keep working, you'll usually find your
way out of whatever problems you're in.
(electronic music)
(whoosh and creaking)