You’ve never got it down. It’s this fluid thing, music. I kind of like that. I wouldn’t like to be blasé or think, ‘Oh you know I know how to do this.’ In fact I teach a class at a the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys — I do a little songwriting class with the students — and nearly always the first thing I go in and say [is], ‘I don’t know how to do this. You would think I do, but it’s not one of these things you ever know how to do.
What a comfort. Nobody knows what they’re doing—they just do.
Further evidence that even idols are imperfect, self-doubting humans. Paul McCartney questioning one of the greatest albums of all time.

A Beatles story I find heartening whenever I’m nervous about releasing something https://t.co/0AjH6ltCFl pic.twitter.com/C8Qu6iHWbk
— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) June 13, 2016