Thus, people will stick you into all sorts of boxes. They’ll call you a genius, or a fraud, or an amateur, or a pretender, or a wannabe, or a has-been, or a hobbyist, or an also-ran, or a rising star, or a master of reinvention. - P120
Actually, pigeonholing is something people need to do in order to feel that they have set the chaos of existence into some kind of reassuring order. - P120
Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to." Actually, don’t even bother answering. Just keep doing your thing. - P121
Because, in the end, it’s just creativity. Or, as John Lennon once said about the Beatles, "We were just a band!" - P126
Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it’s a gift. It’s the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. - P128
It doesn’t discourage me in the least, in other words, to know that my life’s work is arguably useless. All it does is make me want to play. - P128
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