I really do like to sing, I don't like to play the piano in public, that's probably a childhood problem. I'm okay with playing the guitar in public. To get one's sea legs as a performer takes a lot of work. You did a lot of teaching while you were here. I love teaching.
Teaching is like art without pain.
That the future of writing is the universe within. During the '40s and '50s there were certain social issues that had not been addressed in the mainstream popular culture yet. Those issues have been addressed well, not that they can't always be revisited, but they're not as cut and dried now, they're not as black and white. When I can write specifically it comes from my universe within, not looking to see how I might create a socially resonant piece. That's not what I work from.