we create a caste system at our companies that mimics the caste system we create with respect to our own bodies and selves. My hands are mine, we say, but my brain is me. This fits in nicely with our sense of an inner homunculus pulling the levers and operating our body from a control room behind our eyeballs.

[If a musician is constantly and fluidly inventive, it's partly because they refuse to bore themselves.]

[What you call "being stuck" is for me "composing".]

[Art resists scale.]

What I can do here, I cannot—I cannot do in another place.

[Chess openings and closings can be tabulated, whereas the middle is actual gameplay.]