It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.