“[I]n the past 14 months he has retreated into almost total absence from the music world as performances of his work have come and gone… [H]e still hasn’t heard [his latest] disc, unable to focus his mind or summon the energy. And, lying on a sofa with his long, thin legs crooked like a pietà (he has always looked like Jesus, on or off the Cross), he is barely able to string words together, still less write.”