one last project

I don’t think that exists, you can’t get creative fulfilment from a single project. Just being creative is an ongoing process, and the moment you feel satisfied that’s the moment you cease being creative. You start to think, I’m gonna work in Sainsburys as a shelf stacker now, or get myself a nice sensible boring job in a bank somewhere, settle down with three kids. I think that’s the point at which that happens. All creative people are cursed, because they do something, and they think this is brilliant, then halfway through the project, find it a chore, like me, but then after it’s completed off they look back and think, ‘Awh, I’m gonna have to do that again’ It’s like a constant, a revolving cycle, it’s almost like being a drug addict. ‘I know this is bad, I shouldn’t be doing it. I know this is bad, I shouldn’t be doing it’. It’s a fix and you do it again and again and again. That’s what creativity’s like, so, if I had to say that I had to do one project that would sign off, I’d certainly love to know. I’d find it an extremely exciting, or terrifying experience knowing that I’d done something that completely satisfied all my creative urges. I think that question doesn’t exist for me.

-- Interview with Nick Kilroy