It sort of makes you wonder whether there are just some people who have to be living a 'death wish' kind of life in order to find their muse. Do you think that if Townes Van Zandt had managed to quit drinking early on and courted commercial success his songs would have resonated the way they do? Would there be that haunting, beautiful sadness to his writing and that wry wit behind his humor? Or would it be the same kind of chaff as most of country music? I would hate to think that self-destructiveness is part of what made his (or anyone else's) music great, but it's also hard to separate his life from his music.