I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
“I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.”
“Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.”