There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Composing is like making love to the future.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.