"I Always Have Anxiety" When Starting New Projects | Rick Rubin

When we're starting a new project, I always have anxiety. Always. Because I don't know what's going to happen. You know, there's a real question mark when we walk in to start. And I know that it could go a lot of different ways. And I don't have, I'm not interested in having a playbook in advance. I'm interested in seeing where it's going to go. And it's scary because it could not go good. And sometimes there's an ex, you know, some artists have an expectation that I'm going to do something. I can't do anything. It's either gonna happen or it's not gonna happen. But then usually within, sometimes it's the first day, sometimes it's the third day, sometimes it's the second week, where something happens like, Whoa, what was that? How did that happen? And then that might give us a clue. It's like, oh, this is what it wants to be. And that may change also. That may be the first inclination. It could start that way and then it makes a left turn, turns into something completely different. The work itself tells us where it wants to go.