In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

If I practice I'll really alienate people.