I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.