At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
“I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.”
“That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.”