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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

I think the special thing about Python is that it’s a writers’ commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

I always want to do things that are different. I don’t want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.