"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The opera is a beautiful and irrational world. One could spend a lifetime listening and still not understand everything.
"I just want to make people happy. That's all I ever wanted to do with music."