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.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

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.

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.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

Only one music comes out of me.