I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.