What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.”