Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

Everybody is entertained to death.