I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
Only one music comes out of me.
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
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.
Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.
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.