I'm making
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As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing-a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.