From his website: "I figured this one out listening to Cole Porter. The song is really important because I want to keep the modern lieder aspect of solo voice and piano alive. I want it to be one of the foundations of my career. I’m very influenced by Schubert. Someone said there’s more beauty and expression in two bars of a Schubert lieder than in a four-hour opera. At any rate, we definitely need a break at that point in the record."
From his website: "I figured this one out listening to Cole Porter. The song is really important because I want to keep the modern lieder aspect of solo voice and piano alive. I want it to be one of the foundations of my career. I’m very influenced by Schubert. Someone said there’s more beauty and expression in two bars of a Schubert lieder than in a four-hour opera. At any rate, we definitely need a break at that point in the record."