If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.