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Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.