I've always leaned towards in in terms of writing music writing songs that it's the pain that excited me.
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The mind does not work by way of ideas, but by way of passionate preferences; we do not see nature, we see our idea of nature.
George Bernard Shaw — The Sanity of Art
The man of science must work with method and system, but the artist works by inspiration, and what the artist produces by inspiration the man of science can explain by analysis only after the fact.
Henri Bergson — The Creative Mind
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Yet I would not exchange this sadness for the complacency of those who have ceased to be responsive.
Erich Fromm — The Art of Loving