David Lang

The relationships are really tight and powerful.

And then the second the concert is over, everyone goes their separate ways.

Do you feel you're world famous now?

I wouldn't say that anyone in my field is famous.

I've seen Philip Glass shopping in a grocery store with nobody seeming to notice him.

And if he can get away with that, there's no one going to notice me.

I feel like I'm at a level where I can tell people interesting and strange things that I might want to do and they might want to let me do them.

I still have projects on my list that I wanted to do for 30 or 40 years.

Can you name one?

I don't want to tell you because they're all just silly ideas and someone's going to hear a silly idea and go, well, I'm going to do that tomorrow.

I have to say I was very nervous when we started all of this because I thought you knew so much more about Adam Smith than I did.

And you would point out all of the things I got wrong.

There's so much of literature that we love, and it all ends up being people and money problems.

But it isn't only the problems he was interested in.

I think The Wealth of Nations is Adam Smith's idea about how everyone in the world gets along.

And we hear how all that becomes musical.

I really have nothing to do.

It's really the shockingly most empty period of my life.

I'm just sitting around nervous because I go up and down thinking that I did something that I'm really proud of.

And I'm also unaware of all of the titanic errors that I may have made that I will only have five minutes to fix.