I am asking with regards to your own songs. Obviously you have high standards, a particular way of making songs that don't talk about lowly things. Like for example your song "might quit", which is about leaving and doing your own unconventional thing in a way that makes more sense to you... I cannot explain exactly but I tried doing that for some time in my life and it didn't work out... I realized it was just a pipe dream. So ...I'm ranting a bit... I guess I'm asking what is that thing of unending beauty that you can rely on?
the entire world, but, also, any individual piece of that world is sufficient guidance. but i guess if you find yourself worrying about not being 'good' 'enough' 'all the time', then i suppose it's worth remembering that every picture ever painted has some lines that go in the wrong direction. otherwise there wouldn't even be anything in the picture. So, when you go to make a new song, get excited about how wrong some of it is going to be