I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
Art is not only about angst.
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.