I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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.

