Rick Rubin // "Reading great novels...seeing a great movie...reading poetry... The more you can do to get out of the mode of competition, where you get out of what other people are doing and wanting to be better than them... The only way to use the inspiration of other artists is if you submerge yourself in the greatest works of all time... If you listen to the greatest songs ever made, that would be a better way to work through to find your own voice to matter today than listening to what's on the radio now and thinking, 'I want to compete with this.'"