You can't control when the good shit's going to come out. So make music every day — whether you feel like it or not.
I know I sound like a broken record saying this. But here's what happened.
I'd just got off a flight — only an hour and a half, but I was running on no sleep, I'd been active all day, and I felt rough. Nowhere near the headspace I'd tell you that you need to be in to make good music.
I sat down, got my laptop out, and opened a project I'd started over a year ago. An old idea I'd more or less left for dead.
And I had a massive breakthrough on the production.
If you'd asked me, sitting on that flight, whether I was about to make anything good, I'd have said no chance. But the way I approached it — I don't think I'd have got there sitting in the studio. I don't think I'd have got there in my so-called best mindset for making music.
I just sat there, and after about an hour I went: oh shit, I've actually got something here.
That's the message. Make music every day, whether you feel like it or not — because you don't get to control when the good stuff decides to show up.
