My whole psychology can change. If you are a rock climber, once you' re halfway up the face of the cliff, you have to keep moving, you have to keep going somewhere. And that' s what I do. I have prepared my awareness. I can respond swiftly to the whole broad range of what my ears tell me can happen.
Creativity is misunderstood, because the result is often given more weight than the process.
That's partly because so many people are involved in the event, in the process of living and breathing at the same moment. This is actually the only way someone can do this and get away with it. I once played a solo concert on tape for the Russian pianist Vladimir Ashkenazyi. If you're going to get burned by the flame, you don' t just wander around outside it, you have to jump in it. It's taking a chance.