with every day I grow a little more sure

"The difference between a writer and someone who dreams of being a writer is that the writer has finished. You’ve gone through the agony of taking an idea that is perfect – it’s soaring, it comes from this other place – then you’ve had to summon it down and process it through your shit brain. It’s coming out of your shit hands and you’ve ruined it completely. [..] And then you have another idea. And then these finished things are like stepping stones towards being able to find your voice.

[..] living through that agony is what gives you the humility to understand what writing is about."

Kate Tempest

Stulbāk vēl, ja vēlāk žēl.

Juris Kulakovs, atrādot Pērkona dziesmas padomju cenzūras ieviesējiem, norādīja, ka dziesma "Balāde par gulbi" veltīta PSRS dabas aizsardzības fondam. Jo nosist gulbi taču ir tik stulbi!