I, As A Young Guy Getting Out

It Takes About A Year To Write An Opera For Me, But Not A Really A Year Of Writing. I'm Touring At The Same Time, And I'm Playing, Sometimes Doing Smaller Projects.[the Opera] Akhnaten Fits In With Gandhi And Einstein, So That Forms A Trilogy In A Way.i Picked People Who Were These Kind Of Larger Than Life Characters, Who Kind Of Changed The World They Lived In By Almost The Force Of Their Personality And Their Inventiveness. People That I Think Not Only Do I Admire But I Think They're Admirable People.

I Think I'm Really Part Of A Whole Generational Movement In A Way. I Think A Lot Of Other People Since And During This Time Have Gotten Interested In Writing What We Can Still Call Experimental Music. It's Not Commercial Music. And It's Really A Concert Music, But A Concert Music For Our Time. And Wanting To Find The Audience, Because We've Discovered The Audience Is Really There. Those Became Really Clear With Einstein On The Beach.

Traditions Are Imploding And Exploding Everywhere - Everything Is Coming Together, For Better Or Worse, And We Can No Longer Pretend Were All Living In Different Worlds Because Were On Different Continents.

What I've Noticed Is That People Who Love What They Do, Regardless Of What That Might Be, Tend To Live Longer.

I Travel The World, And I'm Happy To Say That America Is Still The Great Melting Pot - Maybe A Chunky Stew Rather Than A Melting Pot At This Point, But You Know What I Mean.