I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.