Dan Bern on finding a creative refuge, 2001

I’m painting and drawing a lot, writing stories. I don’t know, it all seems to feed each other and balance each other. Music and songs and touring and records--I love it; I can’t imagine a better job in the world, but at the same time, it’s a job and sometimes it feels like one when you are driving 500 miles a day and stopping at the radio station and going to the record store and doing the gig. So it’s nice to have these other things that nobody knows much about. I really don’t have to think about what anybody thinks about it. It’s refreshing. It’s like when I was 15 writing songs--it feels like that.

From the book The Complete Singer-Songwriter: A Troubadour's Guide to Writing, Performing, Recording, and Business

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