You want to take the most direct route. It doesn't make sense to come through the Altamont and divide the tracks in three different directions to serve three different cities.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

(With) a direct route from a U.S. hub to China, it would just open up a huge pathway to sell our products. It would just be a huge opportunity for Indiana companies.

So we talked about the tune, we talked about the lyric and about how we would divide it up and approach it. There certainly wasn't time to say, 'By the way, do you remember 1965, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts? What was that all about?'