“I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.”
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If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.