I Travel The World, And I'm Happy

I Don't Know What I'm Doing And It's The Not Knowing That Makes It Interesting.

It Takes About A Year To Write An Opera For Me, But Not A Really A Year Of Writing. I'm Touring At The Same Time, And I'm Playing, Sometimes Doing Smaller Projects.[the Opera] Akhnaten Fits In With Gandhi And Einstein, So That Forms A Trilogy In A Way.i Picked People Who Were These Kind Of Larger Than Life Characters, Who Kind Of Changed The World They Lived In By Almost The Force Of Their Personality And Their Inventiveness. People That I Think Not Only Do I Admire But I Think They're Admirable People.

I, As A Young Guy Getting Out Of Music School, I Didn't Like The Prospect Of Spending My Life Writing Music For About 200 People.

If You Don't Have A Basis On Which To Make The Choice, Then You Don't Have A Style At All. You Have A Series Of Accidents.

Finally, Ultimately, You Write Music For Yourself. I Mean, I Need A Public, I Need People To Play, I Need Everything Else. I'm Not Working In Isolation. But Finally The Man That Writes The Music Is Alone. And I Have To Respond To Those Criteria Which Are Almost Like Inner Needs Or Inner Responses.