Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

The home is a place where we show our children that we can communicate, learn, and succeed together.

You never know where you can possibly reach in your lifetime if you pursue the path of constant and never ending self-development.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.