Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.