steps away from my house .

IE : Do you regularly pad out there in your pajamas with a great midnight idea ? TBS : No , I don ’ t do that . I learned a long time ago that when I have those moments – and they seem so vivid and clear when you think of them , and you think you ’ re going to remember them , but you never do – that now its much easier to just throw your idea into an iPhone . I ’ ve done that several times . I started off one of the songs on this new album as I was walking down the street in New York . It ’ s called “ What I

doing – that being my art , my craft – I become a menace , a menace to society .” Which is a little overstated , because I would be more of a menace to myself and those around me . I like to work . And I think for anybody , it ’ s important – to find purpose in their life , to do what they ’ re put on the Earth to do . In other words , to be happy you have to seek happiness . There are a lot of people in this world who don ’ t like their day jobs , and it makes it hard for them to be peaceful , to have any kind of inner calm . So I ’ m really fortunate . I get to do exactly what I want to do , and

the reason I get to do it , I suppose , is the perk of actually getting compensated for it . But it ’ s not just monetary compensation – that ’ s kind of non-existent with my solo career . It ’ s more about being compensated

Timothy B . Schmit , 2017

deep down , in your own psychological core .

IE : So what kind of mischief do you get up to when you ’ re not occupied with work ?