I was a visual artist primarily and a writer even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing and I don't...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
It would be a pity if frustrated by the price of travel we elected to become a society that never made contact that never gave SETI a fair chance.