We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.