Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.