Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.