You either are or you're not.
I don't think there is much American music.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
I'm not an architectural composer.
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.