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

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.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.

It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.