I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.