The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
“It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.”
“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.”