Sourdough
All artists connect the dots differently. We all start off with all these live, fresh ingredients that are recognizable from the reality of our experiences (a heartbreak, a finger, a parent, an eyeball, a glass of wine) and we throw them in the Art Blender. My songs are personal and intimate; a lot of them chronicle my inner life. I mine the depths
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Once the correct temperature has been reached, you must quickly rake the fire out of the oven, move the hot ashes away to one side – or into the ash hole beneath the oven – speedily flick a damp mop over the oven floor to clean the worst of the remaining ash out, then slip the bread in, put the door in place and seal around it with a small sausage
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Michiko Kakutani wrote a piece on the show for The New York Times in which I was quoted as saying, “Our process ended up being not unlike Seurat’s. We had to wait until all the dots filled the canvas … before we could step back and look at what we made. You go through the process of doing what you do, and then finally, you just have to put it up th
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This passage is one of the truest statements I’ve encountered about the nature of authorship. You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen—it becomes distorted, a
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