Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.
John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.
So many people have told me that it's quite different playing out in the States, and obviously, as a musician, touring in the States is kind of the Holy Grail.
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.
The holy grail for me is just stand-up - It's always been that. If I can just tour and headline in stand-up, that's the dream. But I'll do anything that looks like fun, y'know?
The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
