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.

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

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.

With chamber music you can get people who work on the music for months, rehearsing it every day for a couple of hours, and if they get it in a different way than you do, which is entirely possible, it's not as a result of anything other than their good musicianship.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.