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

There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

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

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.

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.