I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.

If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

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