I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

