...when all is right with the world, as in the light of a passionate love, there is a completeness that doesn't need anything else but itself. There's not much inducement to write about it or create something external based on this completeness when everything you're doing in going about your daily life is infinitely rewarding and fulfilling. Even taking out the garbage, when done from the depths of your soul, becomes a beautiful event.

Yet there are hundreds of thousands of songs, paintings, sculptures, what-have-you...that stand in testament to romance. Artists are so move by these feelings that it compels them to try their hand at externalizing love for the rest of the world to see or hear. Love serves as an inspiration to create something.

And so does the lack of it. Personal opinion, but the most interesting art is that which is created as an antithesis to empty space, or to fill a void. That is to say, in response to the feeling that there is a lack of beauty here.

To confess, I've written stuff from the standpoint of being in love and not being in love, and I'm more prolific when I'm on the rebound than when I'm in a relationship. Call it "therapy."