Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

New York is still where I live most of the time.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time