The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
I am a romantic, I admit it.
Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.