I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.