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.
I think art can reflect tragedy.
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
Art is not only about angst.
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.