What piece of art/music changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I saw Pinetop Perkins, he was with Sonny Boy Williamson. We were comin' home from school, and we heard this music. Ernest Lane'...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I don't think there's one thing, because it's been a slow evolution, not a sudden change. Mostly, it's been my relationships with family...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was about eleven years old, I fell in love with the legends
of King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Sherlock Holmes. From King Arthur, I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
One of the things that really changed my life was meeting Jackson Pollock and seeing his drip paintings when they were still wet in the...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Back in 1987 I had the opportunity to get to know the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu while performing his concerto “To the Edge of Dream...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The album Money Jungle, the famous trio date involving Max Roach (drums), Charles Mingus (bass), and The Man himself Duke Ellington at...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For better or worse, I became the writer that I became in considerable measure because of two literary monuments fortuitously...
What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
It was a drawing on canvas by Cy Twombly owned by the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna. I did not understand some curls and asked...
What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
I must say that the question of 1 piece of art, music, film that changed my life is difficult because there are many...Many!
I could...
What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
I first tried to read the book Lolita when I was twelve, but only because I had a sense that it was obscene. (I believe my father...
