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"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that."
Feelings
"I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now."
Time
"When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done."
Time
"When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process."
Life
"The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing."
Confidence
"Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done."
Being
"You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie."
Time
"The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing."
Politics
"That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that."
Strength
"I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more."
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