

Last Friday I was listening to a really good interview with Janis Ian on WXPN.org who was promoting both her new autobiography, Society's Child, and the 2CD set of music that accompanies it. In the course of the interview Ian was asked if she had to write songs (in the Artist's sense of having to create to feel at peace). Ian responded that she had discovered that writing songs was so much the important thing for her but, rather, it was writing in general that she needed to do. She pointed to her history in writing for various publications (musical and political) as well as her more recent forays into writing Science Fiction.
I'm finding much the same to be true.
A bit more can be found ( by clicking on through to the other side )
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