There's many possibilities for anything.

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

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

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.

There's things I'd like to do, but I've found that pretty much anything that I try to will to happen doesn't happen, but if you just kind of let go and let things fall into place, somehow I end up being able to do the right thing or the right time.

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.