I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.