People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.
I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and immediately imagine a whole universe around them. A relationship, a future, and all based on just a second which might not even have been in their company. It's amazing how quickly the human mind can come up with this stuff.
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.