I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are talented in music, but they're trying to figure out how to go about it.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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