When there's a deadline, there's also a destination, a context, a reason for something. And that's what makes me finish it. Up until that point, it's an experiment. It's sitting on my shelf and I can take it down again as I often do, work on it again, put it back on. [Then I can take it] out two years later and work on it some more.

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Creativity dies with too much structure. But it also dies without deadlines. A deadline prevents you from trying to make something perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.