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I consider myself a composer.

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

I don't really call myself a composer.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

I'm a composer, man.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.