I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions