Listening History
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People who are gifted with creative ability are often a little strange. Look at Andy Warhol and his assortment of wigs, Salvador Dali and his trade mark moustache, the poet Coleridge and his opium dependency, or Sylvia Plath and her psychiatric instability.
Perhaps these quirks are part and parcel of creative ability. As the poet Edgar Allan Poe once said, “Men have called me mad, but the question has not been settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
This is not to say creatives must all be mad, but it is fair to say many of them are a little bit eccentric, obsessive and – if truth be told – arrogant or self-absorbed, too.