I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”
“Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.”