PRICE OF PERFECTION

Four years ago pianist Keith Jarrett was struck with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome so severe it all but ended his career. He could barely get out of bed. Now he’s back and talking about it. “Nobody gets CFS who isn’t always trying to do three or four things at a time. If you’re a couch potato, I don’t think you’d be likely to get this. So if you’re doing something new that’s almost an athletic event, and then inside it is this intellectual and emotional component that requires all your abilities every time you do it, and you’re starting from zero every time… well, it’s almost a perfect disease for me to have gotten.” – The Guardian