Michael Tippett

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!