I just want to make music on the drums.

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.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

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

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.