Juliana Hatfield writes about her experience working on My So-Called Life, and the song-writing process. My favorite part is her thoughts on how constraint fosters creativity:
Having rules or limitations can be very liberating just as having total freedom to do whatever you want, however you want, can be sort of paralyzing. It’s hard to know where to start, sometimes, when absolutely everything is available to you. Too many choices can make it hard to make decisions.
Also worth mentioning, Juliana Hatfield has been using the pay-what-you-think-this-is-worth system to sell her albums long before Radiohead or Trent Reznor.
