I 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

I 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).