May 24th is Rosanne Cash’s birthday and I have always loved this quote from her

I think that when you’re in that creative zone, you’re tapping into the collective unconscious, and that there’s a field there. I think that’s the unified field, that creative vast unconsciousness full of beauty and love. And when you’re in the zone, as a writer, as a painter, as a cook–any creative endeavor–you can draw on it. Sometimes I feel like the songs are already out there, and that I only get to write the ones that my skills have developed enough to be able to channel. So I want to be a better songwriter because I want to catch better songs.
It’s not that way with all of them. Some of them are just you, you’ve worked hard enough, you know how to do this, you can just pound something out, you can really polish it up. Some of them are infused with the radiance of truth, and those are the ones that I think come from that unified field, from God, from what I think of as God. That doesn’t mean I’m extra special, by the way. That means everyone has access to it.
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Rosanne Cash