For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.