Any system of thought which allows no value to human thought will destroy its own efforts. -Fingerprint. - Mark Heard

A lot of times I wonder what Adam would have written songs about. -Appalachian Melody.

That's what music is about, and those are the types of experiences I value most in looking for the visceral and unidentifiable thing it is that makes music music, and not something else.

Artistic expression might be seen as a Darwinian protection device for the psyche of fragile individuals, for whom sensuous contact with the outside world is too much to bear, and is repressed, and must be brought up and thrust out into the open from time to time at great effort in order for them to simply survive emotionally.