I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

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.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.