If Ira says it, I believe it: it simply takes a lot of work to make good stuff.
If this topic comforts and gives you hope and fires you up because, “hey, it’s only hard work and anyone can do that”, then you might also like to know how long it took Bruce Springsteen to write Born to Run and Leonard Cohan to write Hallelujah.
Comforting for you today? Makes the process of “digging for your special thing” more enticing and doable?