Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

[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.

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

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

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

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.