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

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

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

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

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.

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