The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
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.

