It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

Nothing left to do but smile.