Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.