“The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.”
“I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.”