Josh Ritter chats to I Like Music

ILM: If you weren't a musician, what would your second career choice have been/what would you be doing if you weren't a musician?

JOSH: I think I'd be a novelist.

ILM: Well yeah, it's a very narrative music you write, so yeah, that makes sense. Also, you went to Oberlin College and changed your major from neuroscience to graduate in American History through Narrative Folk Music. How did your further education help you grow in terms of your career/life in general?

JOSH: Sure, I think really the only way for me to judge a good education is that it teaches you the limits of your own ignorance and tells you how little you actually know and that's invaluable at least if you're able to admit to yourself that you don't know much of anything and that you'll never know much of anything, then you'll always be interested in something and open to learning so your opinions change from one day to the next.

That's so important. Especially as a writer, to always be interested in things; it's an important thing to cultivate curiosity.page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>