I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

