I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.