I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.