I think it was a question of, from a historical perspective, learning as much as I could so I wouldn’t make the same mistakes. And I think that had to do with visiting as many places I could ‘cos I always brought things back and stored ’em away so I wouldn’t make those mistakes that I’ve seen other people make because they didn’t know their history and didn’t know the background and didn’t research it long enough. I used to say you can’t live long enough to make all your own mistakes. You’ve gotta learn from other people’s mistakes. By knowing your history, you’ll prevent that.
