I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce

We are never short of craziness

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

I love any kind of food. I dont have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.