I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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.