I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.
“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”
“Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.”