Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.
“But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.”
“Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.”