Colin Sheridan: A process lies behind every perfection, it's why we jump through hoops

Musician Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Picture: Getty Images

"For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun."

— John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel, The East of Eden Letters.