I just found this wonderful piece by Jacobson, particularly loved this part:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...or-musician-is-escaping-the-self-9672673.html
People ask writers where they get their ideas. The answer is – from the work. Start with an idea and you’re dead in the water. Inspiration doesn’t precede the work, it finds itself in it. Down you go into the deep dark tunnel which is writing, wondering when, if ever, you will find the light, and so long as you are down there, unsure, perplexed, not someone you recognise, not anyone at all, just a thing that burrows, you are happy.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...or-musician-is-escaping-the-self-9672673.html