If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.”
“Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.”