I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.