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I don't know if there's any real connection between feeling down and being creative, but the thought had occurred to me. Friends and I have joked (joked!) that
by b6 12y ago
I don't know if there's any real connection between feeling down and being creative, but the thought had occurred to me. Friends and I have joked (joked!) that Trent Reznor should get back on heroin and resume making the kind of music he did back when he seemed miserable. And feeling down tends to make me want to sit and play guitar.
- bronz 12y agoI prefer the way he is now. His soundtrack work is very good.
- libraryatnight 12y agoYes, he's an artist I've enjoyed watching change and sort of growing up and older with. I still very much enjoy his old work, but I also really enjoy the things he does now.
- visakanv 12y agoI definitely use my guitar as therapy, too. I think there are a few different kinds of creativity. (And there are a few different kinds of feeling down, and a few different kinds of happy, and we seriously can't conflate all of them together.) My favorite creativity is when I'm well-rested, have been exercising, am clear-headed and have been in a few different environments. I see things that others miss, and I come up with sharp, clever, fun ideas. Creativity-as-play. But there's also the kind of angry, frustrated creativity that happens out of limitations and pain. The kind Neil Gaiman was talking about in his talk "Make Good Art". Creativity-as-coping-mechanism. I think it's kinda like, freedom-from and freedom-to. There's a playful kind of creativity (I enjoy), and a desperate kind of creativity (which I respect, but would prefer not to have to use).