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.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Life for me is about movement.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.