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.

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

I find humming is very useful.

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

I woke up and one of us was crying.