Childhood Is A Tricky Business. Usually, Something

Truthfullness To Life-both Fantasy Life And Factual Life-is The Basis Of All Great Art.

A Whole New World Of Italian Music Was Springing Up, And [giuseppe] Verdi Was Seen As Old. Boito Got Verdi All Excited About The Possibility Of Doing Another Opera, Another Kind Of Opera. In Fact, Verdi Composed His Two Best Operas, Otello And Falstaff, In His Eighties.

I Want To Be Free Again. I Want To Be Free Like When I Was A Kid, Working With My Brother And Making Toy Airplanes And A Whole Model Of The World's Fair In 1939 Out Of Wax.

There's A Mystery There, A Clue, A Nut, A Bolt, And If I Put It Together, I Find Me.

I Have To Accept My Role. I Will Never Kill Myself Like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor Will I Paint Beautiful Water Lilies Like Monet. I Can't Do That. I'm In The Idiot Role Of Being A Kiddie Book Person.