The most important thing, whether you’re talking from a musician, performer, or music appreciator, is to retain that sense of wonder and that sense of connection for what drives your taste, but it’s actually a little bit more primal than that. It’s this thing that moves you. And the truth is that I was moved just as much by American football (the band, not the Packers), as I was, by, for example, Miles Davis’s soundtrack for Lift to the Scaffold, which is just this beautiful, almost ambient jazz record. And, keeping up this balance between, essentially, like, always reminding myself I’m studying this theory so that I can utilize it for expressive purposes.