I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
Only one music comes out of me.
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.