" The song's potential is shimmering beyond the veil somewhere, while the song that you finally write is almost always haunted by a feeling of diminishment. You have a picture in your mind or a feeling in your heart that you're trying to bring into space and time, and there's just no way (yet) to deliver it in its fullness. The song in reality is as different from what you imagined as a portrait is from the painter's subject. At some point (usually thanks to the mercy of a deadline), you have to put down the brush and give thanks for the change to have made an attempt. "

― Andrew Peterson , Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making