The Work I've Done Is

I Always Knew What I Wanted To Do And I Did It.

I Think It's A Great Handicap To Be Discovered At An Early Age. I Didn't Have That Burden Of Early Success. I Had The Much More Livable And Durable Career Where Success Comes Late, And Comes Slowly, And You Ease Into It. So By The Time It Comes, You're Ready To Deal With It.

I've Been Working In Theater, Really, Since About 1965. I Started Working With The Mabou Mines About Then, And In A Way I've Always Worked In The Theater, But It's Never Been A Main Part Of My Work. And It Wasn't Until Einstein That I Kind Of Shifted Into High Gear With Theater, Working With Bob, With Bob Wilson. And Since Then I Find It A Very Attractive Form To Work In. It's Just An Extension Of My Work.

I Don't Know That I Make A Big Distinction Between The Big Pieces And The Little Pieces, Because I Don't Experience Them In That Way. I Mean, By The Same Token, You're Out Touring With A Band And Then You're Writing String Quartets, And In A Funny Way, Isn't It All The Same, In A Way? It's All Just Music.

Finally, Ultimately, You Write Music For Yourself. I Mean, I Need A Public, I Need People To Play, I Need Everything Else. I'm Not Working In Isolation. But Finally The Man That Writes The Music Is Alone. And I Have To Respond To Those Criteria Which Are Almost Like Inner Needs Or Inner Responses.