It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.