It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.