I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.