Any good music must be an innovation.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I love doing concert music.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.