Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

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.

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

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.