Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. . . All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. . . I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around. . . Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Richard Hamming
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result.
