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I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys. ”
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family. ”
Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center. ”
Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake. ”
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. ”
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. ”
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do. ”
I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world. ”
Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? ”
What we see changes who we are. ”