I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

That's all there is; there isn't any more.