I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.