High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.