What keeps your creativity going?

Crikey there’s just so many things to write about. The answer to what keeps your creativity going is your creativity. I think it’s got a certain amount of momentum. If you are used to looking at something creatively, and then working on a painting, or a piece of music or a poem, then the act of doing that sharpens you up to see something else you want to write about, or talk about, or paint, or reproduce, that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

People think you have to be sensitive to write or create art, but I think it’s actually in the writing and in the creating that you become sensitive. It makes you sharp, because you are always looking at stuff to see how you can use it, you are listening for language to see how you can use it, and in the process of doing that you pick up ideas all the time, so for every poem you write, you might think of three others that you could write, okay, and you go out and write those three others, and they suggest to you another three poems each of those you could write, and so it becomes exponential if that makes sense, until you think I could grow old and die and never finish writing the things I want to write about. But you know all our lives are interesting, everyone of you sitting there, everyone has got a fantastic story, it’s just finding it, and it’s mainly throwing out all of the stuff that is not part of the story, and just leaving the piece that really is hard, and powerful in the middle.