I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
“You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”
“I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.”