They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
“I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.”
“The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.”