If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.