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TTBOOK: Channeling Creativity Cartoonist Lynda Barry believes that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. James Othmer describes life in that center of American creativity, the advertising agency. Pattie Boyd was the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time. Geoffrey Colvin says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who’s willing to put in the right kind of practice. Celebrated cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry talks with Steve Paulson about her latest book. Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell.

James Othmer was the creative director of advertising behemoth Young & Rubicam. He tells tales of that life in his book, "Adland." Othmer tells Jim Fleming about the ad he created using veterans on the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and we hear it.

It was the best of times for Pattie Boyd. Her modeling career was booming and the sixties were exploding on the London scene. One day she got a call - she'd been cast in a Beatles film. The rest is history: she married George Harrison. Eric Clapton courted her while she was still married to Harrison, and both of them wrote songs for her. We meet the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time, from George Harrison's "Something" to Eric Clapton's "Layla." Her memoir of that time is called "Wonderful Tonight" and she tells Steve Paulson about it.

Geoffrey Colvin is the author of "Talent is Overrated" and Fortune Magazine's Senior Editor at large. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about genius and says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.