I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.
My training and my inclination is to invent.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.
If I need something, I'll invent it.