This is what Elizabeth Gilbert( Eat, Pray, Love) said on (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading) about Tom Waits:
And we were talking about this,
and you know, Tom, for most of his life he was pretty much the embodiment of
the tormented contemporary modern artist, trying to control and manage and
dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses that were totally
internalized.
But then he got older, he got
calmer, and one day he was driving down the freeway in Los Angels he told me,
and this is when it all changed for him. And he's speeding along, and all of a
sudden he hears this little fragment of melody, that comes into his head as
inspiration often comes, elusive and tantalizing, and he wants it, you know,
it's gorgeous, and he longs for it, but he has no way to get it. He doesn't
have a piece of paper, he doesn't have a pencil, he doesn't have a tape
recorder.
So he starts to feel all of that
old anxiety start to rise in him like, "I'm going to lose this thing, and
then I'm going to be haunted by this song forever. I'm not good enough, and I
can't do it." And instead of panicking, he just stopped. He just stopped
that whole mental process and he did something completely novel. He just looked
up at the sky, and he said, "Excuse me, can you not see that I'm
driving?" (Laughter) "Do I look like I can write down a song right
now? If you really want to exist, come back at a more opportune moment when I
can take care of you. Otherwise, go bother somebody else today. Go bother Leonard
Cohen."
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