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

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

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.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

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