It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

The First Amendment is crucial. Of course it is. So are all the others. And the Second Amendment is the one that guarantees that people can bear arms to protect themselves.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings