I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on the page that will spook you into rushing." Little games you can play.