For Ben Folds, creativity is like catching a lightning bug

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For The Hill’s Changing America series, I sat down with Ben Folds, the genre-bending musician to discuss his memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons. The story explores Folds’s philosophy of creativity — how he sees inspiration as something fleeting yet shareable, like catching a lightning bug — and traces his evolution from frontman of Ben Folds Five to symphony composer, photographer, and artistic advisor at the Kennedy Center.

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