Inspiration is cross-pollinating.
But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.
Everything I do, I do for love.
Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.
