If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

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

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.