I think it's better to just live in the here and now and do what you need to do to take care of today's work. If you're doing good work, you're going to get noticed. A lot of times when I don't have enough time, or when I've got too much work to do, I do my best work. I don't know why that is. It's just because I have to get it done, and I get into another level of intensity.
Deadlines are good.
Deadlines keep you on your toes. I think that the jobs of the future that will make a lot of money for people are going to be information processing jobs. If you can look at music as information, then what the composer and library writer does is process information. The information we process is the different styles, and influences and cultural trends. We bring it in, process it, spit it back out in a musical form that the visual artists can then use to paint a picture.